In Cameroon, aid cuts deepen hardship as armed groups seek new recruits

Lum Nicole was among the recipients of the Anglophone Crisis Emergency Response program, a $10 million USAID-funded initiative that provided food assistance and livelihood support to people displaced by Cameroon's decade-long separatist conflict. The program was terminated in March 2025. Photo by: Emmanuela Maikem Kimah / Devex

Families have lost food assistance, small businesses have lost customers, and residents say economic opportunities are disappearing in communities already strained by a decade of conflict.