Tag: Far North

UNHCR to Cameroon: Stop deporting Nigerian refugees

April 26, 2018 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Far North, Nigeria, Refugees, UN

Refugees and IDPs, uprooted by Boko Haram related violence in Northeastern Nigeria and Far North Cameroon, are waiting for relief aid to be distributed. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The UN refugee agency has repeated its call to Cameroon to stop forcing Nigerian refugees to return to unsafe Borno State in neighbouring Nigeria. Since the beginning of this year Cameroon has deported 385 Nigerians, the majority of them this month, says the UNHCR according to international broadcaster VOA. They . . . Read More

Boko Haram strikes again in northern Cameroon, killing pregnant woman and setting church on fire

February 20, 2018 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Far North, Mayo-Tsanaga

In Cameroon’s volatile Far North region, attacks by the radical Islamic group, Boko Haram, have resumed. The region had enjoyed a period of relative calm, with the last attack in 2017 taking place in August. Military campaigns by the Multinational Force – made up of forces from Nigeria, Niger, Chad . . . Read More

Boko Haram sets churches on fire in latest attack on Cameroon’s Far North

January 29, 2018 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Churches, Far North, IDPs, Mayo-Tsanaga, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria, UN

Residents of Roum village in the Far North region of Cameroon woke up to two churches and many houses ablaze on the night of 15 January. The fire was claimed by Boko Haram militants, who had stormed the village late at night. Four people were killed. Apart from the Union . . . Read More

Cameroon: 6 siblings kidnapped by Boko Haram escape to safety

October 31, 2017 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Children, Far North, Nigeria

Six siblings kidnapped from Moskota in the Far North region of Cameroon on 17 August have been found near the border with Nigeria by a group of vigilantes. A local source told World Watch Monitor that the children, between the ages of three and 15, had been taken to Nigeria, . . . Read More

Boko Haram: 381 killed in Nigeria and Cameroon since April

September 5, 2017 Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Far North, Lake Chad, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have claimed the lives of at least 381 civilians in the five months since the start of April 2017, with casualties more than double the previous five months, says Amnesty International in a new report. The radical Islamist group had . . . Read More

Boko Haram in Cameroon: 8 children killed by boy suicide bomber, 6 others kidnapped

August 25, 2017 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Far North, Nigeria, Union of Evangelical Churches

After a period of relative calm, the Far North region of Cameroon, along the Nigerian border, has witnessed an upsurge of attacks by Boko Haram in recent days. On 17 August, a church elder was killed in a night raid carried out by the radical Islamist group on Moskota village. . . . Read More

Boko Haram causing ‘untold misery’ in northern Cameroon

December 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Lake Chad, Mayo-Tsanaga, Nguetchewe

Nearly 170,000 people have fled their homes in N. Cameroon, while the area has received at least 73,000 Nigerian refugees. World watch Monitor “Yesterday I had just one cup of millet [grain] left. There are 12 people in our house. We went to bed last night not knowing what we’ll . . . Read More

Cameroon’s churches struggle to cope with Boko Haram spillover

September 8, 2014 Cameroon Boko Haram, Far North, IDPs, Maroua, Refugees

The United Nations camp for Nigerian refugees in Mokolo, norhtern Cameroon, in July.World Watch Monitor Northern Cameroon is more than ever in the sights of Boko Haram, as details of atrocities committed by the radical Islamic sect from neighboring Nigeria continue to emerge. The militant sect, which now controls . . . Read More

Cameroon pastor among 25 killed as Deputy Prime Minister’s wife kidnapped

August 4, 2014 Cameroon Adamawa, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Far North, Kidnapping, Maroua, Nigeria, Ramadan, Yaoundé

At least 25 people were killed in Cameroon, among them a church leader, as militants carried out two attacks in the far north of Cameroon at the end of July. In one attack in the town of Kolofata, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister and her maid were kidnapped, . . . Read More

Canadian nun and two priests abducted in Cameroon

April 10, 2014 Cameroon Boko Haram, Catholics, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Maroua, Nigeria

The two priests Giampaolo Marta, 47, and Gianantonio Allegri, 57, in a classroom.Courtesy of Vicenza Diocese, Italy A Canadian nun and two Italian priests have been kidnapped by armed men in northern Cameroon, a region which serves as a base for Nigeria’s radical Islamist group Boko Haram. The Canadian . . . Read More

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