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As of 2020, Cameroon "currently prosecutes consensual same sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world". [7] On 27 June 2022, the Human Rights Watch reported that the armed separatist fighters killed and injured people, raped a girl, and committed other grave human rights abuses across Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. The ...
Human Rights Watch said the video was filmed about three weeks ago in the Cameroonian town of Kye-Ossi, near the border with Gabon. Akam is better known by his social media profile Ramon Cotta on ...
Factions of secessionist militias have been battling government troops in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions since 2017, leading to thousands of deaths and displacing nearly 800,000 people.
Human Rights Watch ran an investigation, interviewing 23 people, three of whom witnessed the attack. The investigation debunked the claims made by the government and established that Cameroonian soldiers and armed Fulani had carried out a massacre of civilians.
In June 2018, Cameroon Development Corporation, a state-owned company with 22,000 employees, declared the conflict could lead to the loss of 5,000 jobs on the short term. [556] In July 2018, Cameroonian NGO Human Is Right reported that the war had caused a 70 percent increase in unemployment in the agricultural sector. The palm oil and cocoa ...
Cameroon's government is seeking to block France's LGBT+ rights ambassador from travelling to the country to hold a conference on gender and sexual identity, saying the discussion topics breach ...
The sentence was protested by international human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, [15] the latter of which named him a prisoner of conscience. [16] On 24 November 2011, three young men were sentenced to five years' imprisonment for having oral sex in a parked car.
The next day, United States Africa Command leader Thomas Waldhauser said the lack of transparency in the investigations into human rights violations by government soldiers could have a major impact on their ability to support Cameroon's counterterrorism efforts and challenged Biya to show greater transparency. [51]