Security crises in the cameroon coastal towns: bakassi freedom fighters’ reaction to international decision over the Bakassi Peninsula

A major feature in Africa is the multiplicity of armed non-state groups. They play a fundamental role in the violence that plagued human security and the state capacity to guarantee it. Of the 26 intra, interstate and transnational conflicts in 18 countries between the 1990s and 2014, with insecurity sanctioned by massive internal displacements, human rights abuses, heightened criminality and dead toll; these armed groups’ influence was enormous. Some scholars attribute the existence of such groups to resistance, political reforms and resource control attitudes. But new approaches to peace analyses also attribute the struggles for self-determination as a prime factor for “rebelism”. This paper follows this model. It also argues that insecurity along the Cameroon coast was occasioned by the rebels in reaction to international decision over the Bakassi Affair. But it concludes with a brief therapeutic suggestion for this phenomenon in Africa.