In February, governmental security forces and allied ethnic Fulani militia killed 21 civilians in a massacre in Ngarbuh, a town in the Anglophone-majority North West region. While the Government initially denied allegations of civilian killings, it released an investigative report that was factually flawed but included a promise to work with human rights organizations.
In March, military personnel committed mass rape in a raid in Ebam, a village in the Anglophone-majority South West region. Survivors believe that the mass rape was a reprisal attack, meant to punish and chill support for separatists.
