'Cameroon; No Time To Grieve'

• Prize
  Winner in Editorial / Photography
• Company
  Getty Images Reportage
• Lead
  Giles Clarke
• Project Link
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• Team
  Charlotte Cans/UNOCHA
• Client
  UNOCHA
• Credits
  'Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA'

Since mid 2017, the South Western region of Cameroon has been plunged into turmoil and instability between the English and French speakers, in what is now commonly known as the 'Anglophone War'. Protests erupted following years of governmental failure to give enough recognition to the English legal and education systems in the Anglophone region. Following those initial protests and during much of 2018 to date, hundreds of villages have been torched and thousands of innocent civilians have died in military sweeps, who search for armed Anglophone militias.

Giles Clarke is a British-born, New York–based photojournalist whose work focuses on conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises around the world. Clarke has documented life on the frontlines in countries including Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Somalia, Libya, and Iraq. A contributor to Getty Images Reportage and a long-term collaborator with UN agencies, his work combines intimate storytelling with investigative reporting, giving voice to communities often overlooked and highlighting the human consequences of war, migration, and political upheaval.