Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by NDENGUE Rose, WAKAI Kangsen Feka
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, and patriarchy governs the Cameroonian political landscape.
The bulk of commentary prompted by Cameroon’s 2018 presidential elections underscored its significance, as the elections represented a historic moment that signaled a possibility of change at the (...)
, by HENDRICKS Cheryl, KIVEN Gabriel Ngah
Felix Agbor Balla Nkongho is a leading Cameroonian lawyer and award-winning human rights advocate. Nkongho was detained for nine months for taking part in protests against the marginalisation of the legal and education systems in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The Francophone (...)
, by COREY-BOULET Robbie
Lambert, who died on August 4, was a pioneering LGBT activist who was there to help—even after foreign support dried up.
He emerged as the group’s de facto leader almost immediately after they were taken into custody.
It was May 2005, and Marc Lambert Lamba and 10 other men had been (...)
Muyenge Trouble, a mainly agrarian village with a once dynamic farming population on the leeward side of Mount Cameroon, is one of the many communities ensnared by the violence that has swept through Cameroon’s English-speaking regions since 2017. Tassa Tassa Paulinus used to live there. But (...)
, by ZONGO Peter
As rebel groups combat the clampdown on anglophone activists, civilians are being caught in the crossfire, with reports of many killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes
An hour and a half’s drive from Bamenda, in Cameroon’s north-west, is Belo, a village largely abandoned except (...)
, by KOPSA Andy
Anti-gay laws in Nigeria and Uganda provoke outrage in the US—but Cameroon has quietly been locking up LGBT people for years with little international notice.
The daily tally of prisoners in Yaoundé Central Prison, on the outskirts of Yaoundé, Cameroon, is on a chalkboard the size of a (...)
, by Associated Press
Jean-Claude Roger Mbédé’s three-year prison term upheld by appeals court in Africa’s most repressive state for homosexuals
An appeals court in Cameroon has upheld a three-year sentence against a man found guilty of homosexual conduct for sending a text message to another man saying: “I’m (...)
, by LEMBEMBE Eric O.
The attack came during a gathering to mark the end of this year’s International Day Against Homophobia celebrations in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé.
The time — about 11 p.m., Saturday, May 19. Representatives of several LGBTI organizations march one by one to the podium to discuss what (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
afrol News, 21 February - International press freedom groups are outraged by the homosexuality “revelations” practiced by several Cameroonian newspapers. Robert Ménard, Secretary General of Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), compares these Cameroonian newspapers with the “hate media” of Rwanda (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Letter to the Minister of Justice of Cameroon Regarding 11 Men Detained on Suspicion of Homosexual Activity
DECEMBER 1, 2005
S.E. Monsieur Amadou ALI Minister of Justice Cameroon
Honorable Minister:
We are writing to urge the immediate protection from abuse and release from jail of (...)
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