Cameroonians will elect a new president on Sunday. But in the restive North West and South West regions, many are torn between civic duty and safety concerns.

By Beng Emmanuel Kum

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Bamenda, Cameroon – On the day of Cameroon’s last presidential election in October 2018, then-16-year-old Annie Nsalla* watched from her sitting-room window as Anglophone separatist fighters wreaked havoc in the streets of Bamenda, firing gunshots and threatening voters to deter them from reaching polling stations.