{"id":1232,"date":"2021-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/kamerun-erneut-kind-erschossen-unsere-partnerkirche-verurteilt-gewalt\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:35:41","slug":"cameroon-another-child-shot-our-partner-church-convicted-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/kamerun-erneut-kind-erschossen-unsere-partnerkirche-verurteilt-gewalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon - child shot again: Our partner church condemns violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"We strongly condemn the unprofessional and irresponsible use of firearms in the midst of unarmed civilians,\" writes the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) in its <a href=\"https:\/\/pcconline.org\/communique-on-the-death-of-tataw-brandy-in-bamenda-on-friday-12th-november-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Communiqu\u00e9 of November 12<\/a>. For the second time in a month, a child has been killed by police gunfire in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Both incidents happened in connection with road controls. They show how tense the situation is in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The violence is related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/de\/separatismus-in-kamerun-f%C3%BCnf-jahre-blutiger-konflikt\/a-59351703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the conflict<\/a> between the French-speaking Cameroonian central government and the Anglophone population in the west of the country. The dispute, which has been smoldering for decades, escalated in 2016 and has since claimed more and more victims among the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people have already been displaced by the violence. Since the outbreak of the conflict, Mission 21's work on the ground has focused on the most vulnerable people. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/what-we-do\/project-countries\/countries-2\/cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba Further information<\/a>&nbsp;to our work in Cameroon). We are in constant contact with our partner organizations in Cameroon and continue our joint work even under the currently very difficult conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in supporting the people of Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/donate\/?project_id=134.1001&amp;project_name=Kooperationsprogramm%20Kamerun&amp;cHash=bb02b5008d7936d05ccd6b0eec4ca458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba Donations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/what-we-do\/projects-and-partners\/project\/emergency-relief-and-reconstruction-in-cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba Information on the Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Project in Cameroon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/what-we-do\/projects-and-partners\/project\/cooperation-program-cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba Information on the Cameroon Cooperation Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link Back --><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-backlink-wrap\"><a href=\"\/en\/inform\/news\/\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll News<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/strong><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence is increasingly shaping the daily lives of people in Cameroon. On Friday, for the second time in a month, a child died as a result of a policeman's gunshots. The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, Mission 21's partner church, condemns the violence in no uncertain terms.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"land":[62,24],"wirkungsbereich":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-den-projekten","8":"land-afrika","9":"land-kamerun"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"land","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/land?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"wirkungsbereich","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wirkungsbereich?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}