POLICE in Cameroon fired tear gas yesterday as they clashed with residents fighting eviction from a neighbourhood adjacent to Newton Airport in the country's economic capital Douala. An official said inhabitants of the informal settlement, known locally as Fret Aeroport, were illegally occupying government land and that they would not be compensated. Some residents, many of whom have lived next to the airport for decades despite repeated attempts by the authorities to move them, said they were given less than two days to move out. "This is airport land, the airport has its land title here, and these populations have…