VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1RvItha5A&feature=youtu.be In 2015, IEDA Relief and the UNHCR granted 219 income-generating activities to refugees from Central African Republic living in the refugee sites of Cameroon. This is their story.

Un homme âgé d’une trentaine d’années a été poignardé, le mardi 2 février dernier au quartier camerounais au km5. La victime est morte ce mercredi dans la matinée de suite de sa blessure. Les raisons seraient liées à la répartition des taxes que les autodéfenses du secteur prélèvent auprès des bouc...

Plus de 230 000 centrafricains ont trouvé refuge au Cameroun depuis le début de la guerre pour la plupart dans des camps gérés par le HCR. Parmi eux, de nombreux enfants déscolarisés qu’il faut remettre sur le chemin de l’école. L’ONG Camerounaise Plan International, l’Unicef, et le Ministère de l’E...

By Josiane Kouagheu GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W ith her two-month-old baby on one arm, Mariam Gary squats down in the dimly-lit kitchen to fry fish over a wood fire as she prepares dinner for her five children. Daily survival is a struggle for Mariam in the s...

GENEVA, 18 June (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday the on-going crisis in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States is causing new arrivals of refugees in Niger, and now in Cameroon. "In Cameroon, a UNHCR team visited areas along the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the Far No...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 11 June 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The crisis in northeastern Nigeria has forced more than 6,000 mainly women, children and elderly people to...

Some thousand people fleeing attacks by Boko Haram on the Nigerian city of Kolikolia, in Borno State, arrived last Thursday on the uninhabited island of Choua in Lake Chad. The island lies in Chadian waters about four kilometres from where the borders of Chad, Nigeria and Niger intersect. Refugee...

UN humanitarian agencies in Chad have assisted nearly 1,000 people who fled violence in north-eastern Nigeria in the past week. The Government of Chad contacted the UN on Friday 1 August with reports that hundreds of people crossed from Nigeria into Chad’s largely inaccessible Lake Chad border re...

L'armée et la présidence nigérianes ont annoncé vendredi qu'un cessez-le feu avait été conclu avec Boko Haram. Mais l'incertitude demeure sur la libération des 219 adolescentes enlevées par le groupe islamiste dans le nord-est du pays, mi-avril. L'armée et la présidence nigérianes ont déclaré, ve...

As insurgent groups intensify their campaign of rebellion and terror in Nigeria’s north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, Nigerian refugees have been fleeing across the border into northern Cameroon, Niger and Chad. In the last two months, the number of new arrivals has increased significan...