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Cameroon: Online Fraud Is Becoming a Gateway to Human Trafficking in Cameroon

Cameroon: Online Fraud Is Becoming a Gateway to Human Trafficking in Cameroon

Criminal networks exploit job seekers’ aspirations, turning promises of employment abroad into schemes involving detention, extortion and forced recruitment.

The discovery in September of 15 underage girls in a barricaded compound in Yaoundé’s Essos neighbourhood, followed days later by 20 people (including two children) in a basement in Ngousso, has reignited concerns about human trafficking in Cameroon. The two mixed-use neighbourhoods in the capital’s northeast are home to working- and…

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