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Cameroon: 'It's Been a Nightmare, but I Feel Safe Now' - U.S. Gives Cameroonians Reprieve
RFI, 16 April 2022
Cameroonians living in the US who lived in fear of imminent deportation have been given an 18-month reprieve by the US government, according to the US Department of Homeland… Read more »
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Cameroon: Cameroon Separatists Kill Top Prison Officials
VOA, 15 April 2022
Cameroon says it is saddened by separatist fighters' unending attacks on government workers in its English-speaking northwest and southwest regions. Read more »
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Cameroon: Govt Says Separatists Attacked Border Village
VOA, 9 April 2022
Cameroonian authorities said Friday that separatists had attacked a village on the Nigerian border earlier in the week, with local officials saying they torched at least 12 homes… Read more »
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Cameroon: Govt Says Separatists Abduct Women Protesting Fighters' Abuses
VOA, 8 April 2022
Anglophone Cameroonian separatists have abducted at least a dozen people who were protesting what they said are the rebels' brutality and crimes. The separatists claim the… Read more »
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Cameroon: MSF Suspends Work in Southwest Region
VOA, 6 April 2022
Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French abbreviation MSF, has suspended its work in Cameroon's troubled Southwest region. The group is protesting a lack of… Read more »
Reprieve for Cameroonian Asylum Seekers in the U.S.
Cameroonians living in the United States who lived in fear of imminent deportation have been given an 18-month reprieve by the U.S. government, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Human rights groups in the U.S. and Cameroon have been lobbying for this Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for years due to the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon and the violence carried out by Boko Haram in the far north of the country. Separatists have been fighting to create an independent English-speaking state in the majority French-speaking nation since 2017.
This reprieve, which Cameroonian asylum seekers already in the U.S. can apply for, will last 18 months, but will only start once a federal register is published. Those eligible and in detention will be released once they receive the TPS designation.
The government says the latest victims of separatist brutality are four top prison officials in the northwest region, who were killed on Tuesday by the fighters.
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Years of fighting between separatists and the state in Cameroon have hit women hard, uprooting hundreds of thousands. Fighting triggered by power struggles within the separat Read more »
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In 2020, 53 members of the United States Congress attempted to prevent the Trump administration from deporting Cameroonian asylum-seekers back to their home country, Read more »
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Systematic and widespread attacks by armed separatist groups on students, teachers, and Read more »
Women demand an end to violence between government forces and armed separatists, in Bamenda, Cameroon, September 7, 2018.
