Honourable members, you may be aware of the fact that, in 2020, the UN Secretary-General issued a statement calling for a global ceasefire because of COVID-19 and that the UN Security Council passed resolution 2532, asking countries and warring factions around the globe to embrace the ceasefire because of COVID-19. Obviously, their resolution didn't have any meaning in Cameroon, and some of the worst massacres that we saw occurred in 2020 right in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The concern now, the urgency now, is that, as Africa braces itself for the second wave of COVID-19, if nothing is done to bring about a ceasefire right now, the crisis is only going to be aggravated by the exposure that ordinary citizens have to the COVID-19 pandemic, with very little or no access to medical facilities, especially in the conflict areas.