Cameroon detains journalists reporting on deportees
Feb. 23, 2026
Q: Four journalists were detained last week as they interviewed migrants deported from the United States to a detention center in Cameroon. A lawyer for most of the 15 migrants, none of them Cameroonian citizens, was also detained. Where is Cameroon on the central Atlantic coast of Africa?
Circle the area on this map
Q: U.S. judges ruled that many of the migrants sent to Cameroon could not be sent to their home countries because they could face torture or death. Which historical event led many nations to begin granting asylum to refugees fleeing persecution?
A. American Revolution
B. Crimean War
C. Holocaust
D. World War I
Q: Besides refugees seeking asylum, deportees from nations that refuse to take them are being sent to third countries by the United States. What other African nation has taken third-party U.S. deportees?
A. Equatorial Guinea
B. Rwanda
C. South Sudan
D. All of the above
Q: U.S. and Cameroon officials declined to discuss their agreement on deportees. The 2025 Freedom in the World survey ranks Cameroon as “not free” and places it 15th worst in political and human rights. Which nation that has agreed to take U.S. deportees has the worst rights record?
A. El Salvador
B. Rwanda
C. South Sudan
D. Uganda
Q: The journalists and the lawyer in Cameroon were released after hours of questioning by government authorities who seized their cameras and laptops. Which nation imprisons the most journalists, according to the Reporters Without Borders press freedom organization?
A. Belarus
B. China
C. Myanmar
D. Russia
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