To ameliorate their struggles, the international World Refugee Day was declared with the aims to raise awareness of issues which affects these people across the world. In 2001, UN General Assembly declared that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day. The 2019 World Refugee Day is themed “StepWithRefugees — Take A Step on World Refugee Day. Out of 104,884 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, 102,963 are in the Far North region, displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. Refugee camps are usually managed by charities and can be as big as cities.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 15:44 UTC