Lebialem is a department of

Southwest Province The Southwest Region or South-West Region () is a region in Cameroon. Its capital is Buea. , its population was 1,553,320. Along with the Northwest Region, it is one of the two Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon. Various Ambazoni ...

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the ...

. The department covers an area of 617 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 113,736. The capital of the department lies at

Menji Menji is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is also the capital of Lebialem division. Geographical information See also *Communes of Cameroon The Arrondissements of Cameroon are the third-level units of administration in Cameroon. The ...

. Since the outbreak of the

Anglophone Crisis The Anglophone Crisis (), also known as the Ambazonia War or the Cameroonian Civil War, is an ongoing civil war in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. Following the suppression of the ...

in 2017, much of Lebialem has come under the control of the Red Dragon militia, which were led by

Lekeaka Oliver Lekeaka Oliver, popularly known as Field Marshall, was a Cameroonian army soldier and later an Ambazonian separatist commander and the leader of the Red Dragon militia. His armed group is part of the loosely-structured Ambazonia Self-Defence Cou ...

until he was shot dead on July 12, 2022. In October 2019, after forcing traditional rulers to flee, Oliver declared himself "Paramount Ruler of Lebialem". As of May 2020, much of Lebialem district is under the control of Oliver and his Red Dragon militia.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into 3 communes and in turn into 17 villages or Fundons.

Communes

# Alou #

Wabane Wabane is a town and council/commune in Cameroon. It is the headquarters of Wabane sub-division in Lebialem division Southwest Region of Cameroon. History Wabane was selected and named at the second conference of the Mundani Elite Develop ...

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References

Departments of Cameroon Southwest Region (Cameroon) {{Cameroon-geo-stub