"Developing news in the eastern confines of Cameroon's national territory is strongly marked by a new influx of refugees, which is one of the consequences of the sharp increase in armed violence in the Central African Republic in recent times. This situation is attributed to the numerous rebel groups that roam this neighbouring country; vast landscape and rich natural resources, these has fuelled snatching ambition and a climate of generalized instability that has persisted for many years now.
The table of actors for the restructuring in CAR presents more than twenty armed factions, more or less heterogeneous in terms of organization and ideology, each claiming nevertheless of an almost messianic ideal. Added to these, are other opportunistic fanatics of violence, such as village self-defence groups and highway robbers, the visibility of the breakdown of the security chess board seems more defined.
As a convinced devotee to collective security, and out of solidarity with the Central African people to whom she is linked by multiple secular sociological identities, but also for the security of its own citizens within her borders, Cameroon has taken the train of multidimensional political and diplomatic approaches to labour for the return of peace in this country.
Since 2008 and with the operationalization of the Peace Consolidation Missions-MICOPAX I and II, the Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic under African Leadership-MISCA, until the advent in October 2014, of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of the Central African Republic-MINUSCA, the contingents of Cameroonian soldiers and gendarmes deployed within the framework of these peacekeeping operations, continue to stand out for their expertise. The recent presidential and legislative elections of Sunday January 3, 2021, unfolded remarkably well, in the operational districts of the 7th Cameroonian battalion.