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COVID-19 Spread Provokes Anti-Foreigner, Anti-Diaspora Sentiment in Cameroon

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Officials in Cameroon arecalling on citizens to stop attacks
   on foreigners andvisitors from the diasporawho arebeing blamed for an
   increase in coronavirus cases.The attacks began after some passengers
   on an Air France flight that landed in Cameroon last week ignored a
   quarantine order.

   Forty-three-year-old businessman FerdinandMuffoChe says he has been
   victim of regular attacksand harassment since he returned toYaoundefrom
   Milan,Italy through France on March 17.

   He says residents of Ekounou,theneighborhood where he lives,accuse him
   of being a healthy carrier infecting people with COVID-19.

   "I do not see why my own country where I was born will reject me
   because I have been out. The coronavirus is a problem that concerns the
   whole world," he said.

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