Cameroon: Another Third-Country Removal Scheme Ending with Detention

This year, the Trump administration has quietly deported seventeen men and women to Cameroon under a murky arrangement that is part of broader U.S. efforts to send “unremovable” migrants and asylum seekers to third countries. Upon arrival in the capital Yaoundé, the deportees were reportedly detained and threatened with removal to their countries of origin. […]

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A screenshot by the ICE Flight Monitor shows the flight path of flight OAE4060, which landed in Cameroon's capital on 16 February 2026

Cameroon Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Cameroon Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Cameroon, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Cameroon Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Cameroon: Country Page Cameroon: COVID-19 Updates Cameroon: International Law […]

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Cameroon: Covid-19 and Detention

A critical humanitarian concern in Cameroon is its growing population of internally displaced people (IDPs), which according to UNHCR has increased substantially in recent months because of violence in northern parts of the country. As of mid-2020 there were nearly one million IDPs in the country, in addition to the more than 400,000 refugees. But […]

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