Now, a story about how one man is starting a new life in Wisconsin after a desperate journey

from war-torn Cameroon. Jane McCauley of PBS Wisconsin has this report.

I was thinking maybe I make it wrongly shouldn't have come here.

Gua Augustine had two choices.

He could either face arrest seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border or face political

violence in his home country of Cameroon.

We cannot be in our own country and be treated as a second-class citizens. They go down the

street, they start protesting. We want our right to be restored.

Since 2017, a civil war in Cameroon has torn the Central African nation apart.

Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.

The country's internal conflict is a remnant of French and British colonization.

It's been decades of discriminatory policies from the French-speaking government against the country's English-speaking regions.

More and more, people like Gua have stood up against the government, risking arrest and torture.

Gua's wife and daughter assumed he had died in detention.

What they didn't know is that he escaped from Nigeria and fled to South America,

starting in Ecuador and traveling north through the Darien Gap,

one of the most dangerous places in the world.

Over thousands of miles and through eight countries, he reached Mexico.

I looked like a kind of different human being that come from Sepake Diff and

there was a lot of police discrimination.

I said, oh, this is simply what I'm running away from.

Gua's journey was harrowing, taking a toll both physically and emotionally.

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