Guests at the Seme Beach hotel in Limbe earlier this month. Locals are hopeful that tourism will improve in Cameroon after the Oct 12 election. — Photos: AFP
Yann Anoko fondly remembers the days when tourists would flock to his hotel in southwestern Cameroon, before the English-speaking region’s decade-long separatist conflict put paid to the boom.
Where visitors once used to throng Limbe’s spectacular beaches of black volcanic sand, holidaymakers have become scarce since fighters from the country’s anglophone minority mounted a revolt in 2016.
