A press release (modestly edited below) from Douala-based Alternatives-Cameroon, which fights against Aids and for recognition of the human rights of LGBTI people: June 6, 2016 Cameroon: Threat of eviction for homosexuality The Real Estate Company of Cameroon [La Société Immobilière du Cameroun] (SIC) has ordered Franz Mananga, executive director of Alternatives Cameroon, to leave its apartments, … Continue reading
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Cry for help from gay man on the run in Cameroon
A gay man living on streets in Douala, Cameroon, sent a plea for help to attorney Walter Atoh, who is one of only three attorneys in Cameroon who accept LGBTI clients. The message arrived after this blog’s March 2 publication of Atoh’s call for the repeal of Cameroon’s anti-LGBT law, Article 347 bis. The homeless … Continue reading
Cameroon lawyer: It’s time to repeal our anti-gay law
The repeal of Cameroon’s anti-LGBT law is long overdue, says a member of the Human Rights Commission of the Cameroon Bar Association. In fact, says barrister Walter Atoh, “It is absolutely sickening and ridiculous that in the 21st century a homosexual act gets a person in Cameroon six months to five years imprisonment.” Atoh, known … Continue reading
Plea to to Pope: Restrain Cameroon’s gay-bashing Catholics
In Cameroon, a recent resurgence of anti-LGBTI rhetoric from the Catholic Church has come in for criticism from the Douala-based advocacy group Alternatives-Cameroon, which fights Aids and supports human rights for sexual minorities. In this press release, Alternatives-Cameroon asks Pope Francis to intervene: Cameroon: The Catholic Church continues to preach hate Media releases and speeches from … Continue reading
Medical centre stripped bare in Douala, Cameroon
The Empower Medical Centre run by Aids Acodev Cameroon in Douala, is again object of criminal thievery. Douala, with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, is Cameroon`s largest city. Overnight on November 21 – 22, unidentified thieves broke into the Centre in the Ndogbong neighbourhood, at Carrefour Citadelles, penetrating through the ceiling. These criminals almost cleared out the … Continue reading
Appeal to Cameroon: Stop anti-LGBTI violence
Activists in Cameroon are preparing an appeal to the government of Cameroon, seeking an end to violence against LGBTI people and those who defend their human rights. That appeal, which follows an investigation of anti-gay repression in Cameroon, is scheduled to be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council in September. The activists urge the … Continue reading
Bribe frees 2 from jail, not from Cameroon neighbors
By Laurent Balla Two LGBT men — one in his late teens, one in his late 30s — need to leave the town of Bertoua in eastern Cameroon after their same-sex affair was made public. Their problems began when neighbors of Célestin, 38, began spying on him after noticing that he seldom befriended anyone but … Continue reading
LGBTI in Cameroon: Celebrations, mourning in 2 cities
By Colin Stewart and Laurent Balla Human rights activists in Douala and Yaoundé, Cameroon, gathered last month to seek justice for LGBT people and to mourn friends who have died because of Cameroonian society’s anti-gay attitudes. The event was the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which commemorates May 17, 1990, the day when … Continue reading
Cameroon mob kills gay man; police arrest his friends
By Denis LeBlanc. Edited by Colin Stewart. (Aussi disponsible en français.) A 42-year-old gay Cameroonian man, Augustin Siewe, has died from injuries suffered at the hands of a mob armed with clubs and machetes. Two of his companions, Francis Ngamemo Tientcheu, 40, and Clovis Djeukam, 34, survived the Feb. 6 attack in the coast city … Continue reading
Anti-gay extortionists have free rein in Cameroon
A notorious extortionist in coastal Cameroon has threatened to unleash an anti-gay mob against a human rights leader in Douala, Cameroon. In response, the REDHAC human rights organization asked for government intervention, so far to no avail. This is just the latest in a series of threats by a gang of blackmailers and extortionists against … Continue reading
