Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In the Fergana Valley of Central Asia lies Soch, a little pocket of Uzbekistan's territory that lies entirely within Kyrgyzstan.

The valley is a tangle of such exclaves and clashes at the many border crossings are increasing.

And a word of caution if you're planning to drive in Estonia.

The country's innovation-minded authorities are running a trial

in which speeding is punished not with a fine,

but with a long roadside timeout.

First up, though.

Not so long ago, Cameroon was a stable country in a fragile region.

Today, it's anything but.

For the past three years, a bloody conflict has been raging. Separatist militias want independence for the English-speaking areas of the mainly Francophone country.

The government's trigger-happy forces are burning down villages, while the militias are becoming increasingly violent.

Thousands have died in the unrest. More than half a million have been forced from their homes.

I spent a week travelling in the Anglophone regions where the effects of the war are clear for everyone to see.

John McDermott is our Africa correspondent.

In village after village that I drove through, I saw fields that had grown wild, houses that had been burned down, and several buildings that had just been pot-marked with bullets.

You know, the conflict was inescapable.

The origins of the conflict go back at least a century. After the First World War, the former

German colony of Cameroon was split up between Britain and France. And then when those parts

became independent in 1960 and 1961, they were spliced together to make modern-day

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