Children from the Catholic school in Mbonge, Cameroon, pose for a photograph on their lunch break in January, 2009. School attendance is compulsory for all Cameroonian children until the age of 12, but since the Anglophone crisis of 2016, gunshots on the streets and threats from separatist forces mean many children are denied this right.

First published in the June 03, 2019, 9:11 p.m. edition

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