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In Cameroon's English-speaking North-West and South-West regions, where a long-running separatist conflict continues, an election boycott lockdown has been imposed, paralysing business activities, movement and education.

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The council had clout with advertisers, which put pressure on network programmers to minimize shows that would raise the group’s ire and threats of boycotts.

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The movement for the academic boycott of Israel was “born in Britain in about 2002.”

Even so, Coroneos continued, the track has become divisive, leading some listeners to call for a boycott of Bryan’s music, while others are hailing him as a folk hero standing against government overreach.

“No other minority is being asked to choose between allegiances. This boycott absolutely smacks of something else, and it’s called antisemitism.”

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