La semaine dernière, les autorités camerounaises ont annoncé l' interdiction des activités de cinq ONG accusées de “ illicit financing”. Ils ont aussi évoqué de possibles cas de “ money laundering”, as well as “terrorist financing”.

The ban order was published last Friday, December 6 by the Ministry of Territorial Administration of Cameroon, in charge of security issues. It targets two entities of the Network of Organizations for the Defense of Human Rights in Central Africa (Redhac), as well as the associations “L.M Nanje Foundation INC”, “Reach Out Cameroon (ROC)” and the Sociocultural Charitable Association of Cameroon (Acscc). According to the Minister of Territorial Administration, these organizations “may be passive or active complicit in reprehensible behavior.” According to information from the public channel CRTV, “in two years, these five non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations based in Cameroon received about 16 billion CFA francs”, with amounts that do not reflect “the activities carried out on the ground”. Maurice Kamto indicated on his Facebook page that “the reasons given are serious and perplexing.” For him, “such a blow must keep Cameroonians alert and in a permanent mobilization against a dictatorship that has suffocated the country for a very long time now