Dubai: Over 50 Cameroonian migrants cry for help as gov’t abandons them in detention camp

Over 50 Cameroonians are being held at the Al Alweer Detention Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

According to one of them, they are being held for not renewing their documents.

“We were first at the deportation camp. They just removed us from the deportation camp and brought us here. But now we are at the detention center,” one of the detained Cameroonians indicated.

“The Dubai police,” another noted, “has called on all embassies to come and sign for their citizens so that they can repatriate them. All of them have responded positively except for Cameroon which hasn’t gone there to sign.”

She added that they “have been there for one week, yet our immigration hasn’t said anything or shown up now they are asking them to put their flight.”

Stranded, these Cameroonians continue calling on the Cameroon Embassy to react to this situation as soon as possible.

One of the major challenges faced by Cameroonians and other Africans in Dubai, they note, is the nature rules and regulations are applied. The authorities, a migrant revealed to MMI, pick up even those whose permits have expired past a day.

“Even if it is a day gone you are still being taken”.

By Amina Hilda


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