Douala, Cameroon
Cameroon hosts almost 350,000 refugees from the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Chad and Mali. Douala, its economic capital, hosts a number of conflicts as young men armed with knives, machetes and sticks roam the streets, often murdering, looting and sexually abusing people while in conflict with other gangs.
There are no official figures on gangs. Security forces continue to arrest hundreds in street fights that have led to several murders and hundreds of injuries in Douala since 2018.
