Patients feel abandoned as NGOs deal with loss of PEPFAR funds   Last year, reporting on what the U.S. anti-AIDS program PEPFAR had accomplished in Cameroon before it was defunded by the Trump administration, the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, stated on X (Twitter): Since 2011, the U.S. Government has provided over 800 billion CFA [US $1.4 billion] in assistance to …

Cameroon human rights groups provided legal aid and food for unjustly prisoned men Yaoundé Central Prison in Cameroon. (Photo courtesy of Andy Kopsa) Five queer men in Cameroon are counting the days until their scheduled release from prison on Feb. 6 after serving a four-month sentence for homosexual activity. For their security, their names are withheld in this article. They …

New Cameroonian study documents social, legal, and financial obstacles to queer parenthood   At a meeting last month, Femmes Debout CRD presents its report on the desire of LGBTI Cameroonians to be parents. By Steeves Winner In Cameroon, having a child is perceived as a social obligation, a condition of acceptance and respectability. But for queer people, this universal desire …

Yas has survived physical violence, but now struggles to find food and shelter Flag of Cameroon By Steeves Winner In Douala, behind the invisible walls of marginalization, Yas, a trans woman, struggles daily for her survival. A survivor of physical violence, she bears the scars of rejection and abandonment in her body and mind. “I barely have anywhere to sleep, …

Cameroon’s weak legal framework exposes users to gender-based violence online “AI is fueling new forms digital violence and being weaponized against women and girls everywhere,” says the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. (Illustration courtesy of UNWomen) In a room at the offices of Humanity First Cameroon, about 30 participants, mostly women, gathered recently for a groundbreaking conference on …

Cameroon human rights group Transamical intervened to set them free. Flag of Cameroon On the night of Nov. 23, ten LGBTI youth were arrested in Bafoussam, in western Cameroon, as they were leaving a friend’s birthday party. According to witnesses, a group of men identified only as “men in uniform”  arrested them because of their clothing and appearance, then demanded …

Now please help us replenish funds supporting our advocacy journalism.  After their release from prison, Sabir, Dom, Yabby, and Sol posed for a photo without showing their faces. For nearly nine months, four young Muslim men were detained at Maroua Central Prison in the far north of Cameroon because their local imam thought they might be gay. They were arrested …

Project Not Alone finds and frees innocent LGBTQ victims of African homophobia Illustration created by ChatGPT and PhotoShop, based on the description in this article. On Jan. 28, 2025, at around 11 p.m., two long-distance truck drivers were arrested by members of the Cameroonian gendarmerie while their truck was parked in a rest area near Bertoua, Cameroon.  According to law …