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26th Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Submitted in Accordance with Article 54 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Kevin Gumne et al versus Cameroon

The Complainants are 14 individuals who brought the communication on their behalf and on behalf of the people of Southern Cameroon1 against the Republic of Cameroon, a State Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
2.The Complaints allege violations which can be traced to the period shortly after
  became independent on 1st January 1960. The complainants state that Southern Cameroon was a United Nations Trust Territory administered by the British, separately from the Francophone part of the Republic of Cameroon, itself a French administered United Nations Trust Territory. Both became UN Trust Territories at the end of the 2nd World War, on 13 December 1946 under the UN Trusteeship system.