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WASHINGTON, April
10 – As Cameroon's 36 year
president Paul Biya has
cracked down on Anglophones,
the UN has largely stayed
quiet. UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres stopped by in
October 2017 and smiled,
accepting from Biya a golden
statue. His Deputy Amina J.
Mohammed was in Abuja when
Nigeria illegally refouled
47 people to Cameroon and said
nothing. On April
10 Inner City Press went
to the US State Department
briefing and asked
spokesperson Heather Nauert
about it. Video here
from 32:59.
From the US transcript:
Inner City Press:
Matthew Russell Lee.
MS NAUERT: Okay.
Inner City Press:
Yeah. So I wanted --
MS NAUERT: Nice to meet
you.
Inner City Press: it’s
something that I haven’t seen
the Department comment
on. Maybe you’ll have –
maybe it’s in your binder, or
maybe it isn’t. But
there’s been 47 Cameroonians
were in Nigeria and they were
picked up and sort of
illegally returned, or
refouled, back to
Cameroon. And it’s been
– it’s been months that people
haven’t seen them. And
I’m wondering: Is the
U.S. aware of this? Are
they aware of this conflict,
the conflict or tensions in
the Anglophone zones of
Cameroon, and what do they
intend to do about it?
MS NAUERT: I’ll have to
take your question on that and
get back with you. And
there are things that are not
contained in the binder that
we are aware of as well.
At least
some response, hopefully with
more to come - on the same
day, the UN refused to answer
a single one of Inner City
Press' three questions, after
having evicted
and still
restricting Inner City
Press. We will continue to
cover this. For now, this
Periscope video just after the
State Department briefing.
Watch this site.
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