Communication 336/2007 – AFTRADEMOP and Global Welfare Association (on
behalf of the Moko-oh Indigenous Peoples of Cameroon) v. Cameroon
Rapporteur:
Summary of the Complaint
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13th Extra-ordinary Session: Commissioner Gansou
1. The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
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(the Secretariat) received a Complaint on 9 February 2007 from the
Association for the Reconstruction and Development of the Moko-oh
Peoples of Cameroon (AFTRADEMOP) represented by Mrs. Musongong
Cecilia and Global Welfare Association on behalf of the Moko-oh Indigenous
Peoples of Cameroon.
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2. The Complaint is submitted against the Republic of Cameroon (the
Respondent State or Cameroon), State Party1 to the African Charter on
Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter). The Moko-oh are an
agro-pastoral minority of Upper Moghamo, a clan in Batibo Sub-division of
the North-west of Cameroon.
3. The Complainants allege that since colonial period they have been oppressed
and dominated by the Bali-Nyonga, a migrant tribe from Chamba in the
North of Cameroon.
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Cameroon ratified the African Charter on 20 June 1989.
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