Abstract

The use of asymmetric warfare has become a common phenomenon in 21st century African conflicts The Anglophone secessionist struggle in Cameroon which poses a security threat in the Lake Chad Basin appears to be a perfect footprint of a new wave of Asymmetric warfare in recent times Since 2016 the resistance against the state of Cameroon by Anglophone separatists has taken a more violent twist especially with the emergence of localized armed militia groups and rebel leaders