US Extends Protected Status for Cameroon Amid Escalating Violence in Country

Will affect more than 20,000 Cameroonians who are currently living in America.

The wreckage of a burnt out car is pictured, allegedly destroyed by separatists fighter in a recent attack, as a Cameroonian soldier (L) patrols the edge of the abandoned market in the majority anglophone South West province in Buea, on Oct. 3, 2018. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Prince Hansel Ndi Mbanyamsig was drinking in a bar, while Cletus Aburo Njohgo was in his home that fateful afternoon on Oct. 4, 2023,  when four gun-wielding Cameroon anglophone separatist fighters came for them.

The two farmers in their 40s were then forcefully brought to a market square in Guzang, Batibo district of the country’s war-torn northwestern region, with a heavy charge leveled against them: spying for the Cameroonian military.