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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Cameroonians fleeing unrest hide in the forest with little help |
| 2018-07-18 |
| Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ians fleeing an increasingly bloody separatist conflict have received little aid as humanitarian agencies struggle to access the area, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... said. More than 200,000 people have fled their homes in the volatile western regions since late last year, in addition to at least 21,000 who have fled into Nigeria, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday. The regions have been gripped by violence since protests by the mainly Frenchie-loving country's Anglophone minority morphed into a secessionist movement last year. There were no humanitarian agencies in the area before the insurgency, and bad roads, travel restrictions and unpredictable attacks have made it difficult for them to go in, said Modibo Traore, the head of OCHA in Cameroon. Most of the people who have fled festivities are hiding in the woods, he said. Some have bullet wounds but are afraid to venture into urban areas for medical care. "The people living in the forest are asking for more assistance, saying that conditions are very difficult," Traore told the Rooters Thomson Foundation. |
| Posted by:Fred |