{"id":224645,"date":"2026-02-22T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-abuses-in-cameroon-after-u-s-deports-third-country-nationals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:04:12","slug":"cameroon-abuses-in-cameroon-after-u-s-deports-third-country-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-abuses-in-cameroon-after-u-s-deports-third-country-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Abuses in Cameroon After U.S. Deports Third-Country Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>US and Cameroon Partner in Rights Violations; Cameroon Not Safe for Deportees<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7379048\/us-sends-asylum-seekers-cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detaining<\/a> non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/18\/world\/africa\/cameroon-journalists-arrested-deportees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detaining and abusing journalists<\/a> who tried to interview them. But US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration doesn&#8217;t seem to care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/14\/world\/africa\/us-secret-deportation-cameroon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-africa-cameroon-deportations-immigration-96aead5c5adb30bf34b1ad03ca314763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February<\/a>, under a secret agreement, the US government deported to Cameroon 17 men and women&#8211;including asylum seekers and a stateless person&#8211;from 9 African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602210007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Cameroon Partner in Rights Violations; Cameroon Not Safe for Deportees Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and detaining and abusing journalists who tried to interview them. But US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration doesn&#8217;t seem to care. In January and February, under a secret agreement, the US government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[8396,258,256,4698,377,6549,16316,257,254,53725,2282],"class_list":["post-224645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-abuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-deports","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thirdcountry","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}