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 …