- Travel Advice
DFAT advice for Cameroon
When travelling to Cameroon, you should always get travel insurance in case the worst happens. To help you ensure you travel safely, we have included the travel advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Cameroon.
| Cameroon overall | This Advice is current for Saturday, 06 December 2008. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be alert to own security | Exercise caution | High degree of caution | Reconsider your need to travel | Do not travel |
| Eastern Provinces, Border area with the Central African Republic and the Lake Chad region | ||||
| Be alert to own security | Exercise caution | High degree of caution | Reconsider your need to travel | Do not travel |
| Border area with Nigeria in the region of the Bakassi Peninsula | ||||
| Be alert to own security | Exercise caution | High degree of caution | Reconsider your need to travel | Do not travel |
This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information under Safety and Security: Civil Unrest/Political Tension (Bakassi Peninsula update). The overall level of the advice has not changed.
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- We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in Cameroon because of high levels of serious crime.
- Pay close attention to your personal security at all times and monitor the media for information about possible new safety or security risks.
- Following the restoration of order after violent civil unrest in February 2008, the political situation remains uncertain. You should avoid demonstrations and large public gatherings throughout Cameroon as they may become violent.
- We strongly advise you not to travel to the Eastern Provinces, the border area with the Central African Republic and the Lake Chad region because of the risk of armed banditry and cross-border skirmishes.
- We still strongly advise you not to travel to the border area with Nigeria in the region of the Bakassi Peninsula because of the risk of localised fighting erupting without warning.
- Australia does not have an Embassy or Consulate in Cameroon. The Canadian Embassy in the capital, Yaounde, provides consular assistance to Australians in Cameroon (except the issue of passports). You should register your presence online with the Canadian Embassy as well as with the Australian High Commission in Nigeria which can also assist Australians in Cameroon.
- Be a smart traveller. Before heading overseas:
- organise comprehensive travel insurance and check what circumstances and activities are not covered by your policy
- register your travel and contact details, so we can contact you in an emergency
- subscribe to this travel advice to receive free email updates each time it's reissued.
