Authorities have denied the Cameroon Commonwealth Games team will be sent home after eight of their competitors went missing from the athletes village on the Gold Coast.
Commonwealth Games Federation CEO David Grevemberg said the federation shared with the Cameroon Commonwealth Games Association "concern" regarding the welfare and safety of their athletes.
He emphasises that the athletes had not yet broken any law.
"They are still free to travel within Australia," he said.
The athletes are here on a temporary activity visa which expires in early May.
Mr Grevemberg also said the remaining Cameroonian athletes were not being sent home.
Those that had left the country, he said, had finished competing.
A further five athletes have also gone missing from the athletes village.
It's believed two athletes from Uganda, one from Rwanda and two squash athletes from Sierra Leone have also gone missing.
Commonwealth Games Federation CEO David Grevemberg said officials were working with the Ugandan and Rwandan athletes' respective teams.
"I wouldn't want to be speculative on Sierra Leone at this time," Mr Grevemberg said.
Cameroon officials are still working with the Australian Border Force to locate their eight missing athletes.
Cameroon chef de mission Victor Agbor Nso said they left in "three waves", with the first three leaving on April 8, two more leaving April 9 and last night three others.
Five of the missing athletes are boxers, while three are weightlifters. Six of the athletes had already competed but two had not.
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