Cape Talk, Tuesday morning

People had been expelled to 14 African countries that had agreed to take them in. Cameroon is one of those countries, and the terms in which these people have been deported is very much under wraps. But evidence points to the U.S. having some financial leverage over Cameroon. It's sending military aid and all kinds of funding and investments. And on Cameroon's side, there seems to be an interest in the government wanting.

Political dissidents to be returned to them from the US. So a very murky arrangement. And meanwhile, the deportees are detained. We spoke to two of them and have two first-hand accounts: one is a Kenyan and one is a Zimbabwean. They are detained in Cameroon without clear legal status or any certainty about their future. Now, where you're based currently, Nairobi in Kenya, from a safe haven to

An abduction hub. What's the story? So, last weekend, a Tanzanian opposition activist, his name is Twaham Moipaya, was abducted just on the outskirts of Nairobi, which has people talking about the safety of political exiles in Nairobi, which for a long time was the place that people in the region used to seek refuge in. But, you know, the trend has been one among a growing number. Moi.

Case is just one among many of folks from Tanzania who have been abducted or attempted to be abducted. Our story listed three. But our listeners will also remember that Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was abducted in Nairobi in November 2024. He was renditioned to Kampala and he faces treason charges there. But four months before Besije was abducted, 36 members of his party.

We were having a meeting in Kenya in the town of Kisumu in the West, and they were arrested and forcibly returned to Uganda, and they now face terrorism-related charges. It's a real worrying and kind of unprecedented turn in Kenya's history to the point where our administration is collaborating with other governments in the region to forcibly return their citizens and especially political dissidents and activists.

The Pan-African Solidarity Network is calling on authorities to just take coordinated action against what they're calling cross-border repression. And then it's a tough time for Rwanda recently. Yesterday, the U.S. announced it too will have its preferential US market treatment revoked, also out of the AGOA Agreement, but also fresh sanctions for Rwanda over the war in Congo.