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Unidentified women in Adagom, the refugee settlement in southeastern Nigeria where about 5,000 Cameroonians reside / credit: Philip Obaji, Jr.

After Losing Babies to Traffickers, Refugees in Cameroon Are Fighting Back

February 6, 2023 Philip Obaji Jr

Trafficking of adults and children has become rampant as a war rages in Cameroon between the Francophone government and Anglophone forces. Philip Obaji, Jr., reports from Mamfe, Cameroon.

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