The UN High Commission for Refugees says 35,000 Nigerians seeking refuge in Cameroon are safe. The UN refugee agency said the estimated 35,000 Nigerians had fled across the north-eastern border into Cameroon in the last two weeks of January. There had been concerns about the possible forceful ejection of the Nigerian refugees in Cameroon as the country had threatened severally. “For now, the 35,000 Nigerian refugees are safe in Cameroon, although many are once again putting themselves at risk by returning to Rann on foot, to collect a few personal possessions which were not looted or burnt,” UNHCR said. Thousands of people not just in Nigeria but over the border in Cameroon and Chad, have been killed, many summarily executed.

Source: Punch February 02, 2019 10:07 UTC