U.S. Secured Secret Deal With Cameroon to Deport Migrants, Using Aid as Leverage: Report

Fuente: International Business Times

AFP A secret agreement between the United States and Cameroon to accept deported migrants was secured using financial and diplomatic pressure, according to government documents reviewed by The New York Times. The deal, reached this winter, involved withholding $30 million from a United Nations refugee program in Cameroon and remaining silent on a deadly post-election crackdown by President Paul Biya's government, officials told the outlet. Internal correspondence reviewed by The New York Times also suggest U.