AFP: Nigerian camps under strain from returning refugees

June 29th, 2017

AFP interviewed Yan St-Pierre on returning refugees to Nigerian camps.

Cameroon and Nigeria have been battling over refugees for the past year, said Yan St-Pierre, of the Modern Security Consulting Group in Berlin. In March, the UN said that more than 2 600 Nigerians of an estimated 85 000 who fled into northern Cameroon to escape Boko Haram jihadists had been forced to go home. In a way, Cameroon is calling Nigeria’s bluff, St-Pierre said.

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In the first six months of 2017, Boko Haram has attacked soldiers, staged assaults on military bases, killed scores in suicide bombings and earlier in June launched a major assault on Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Borno state. “It’s a political way of taking them to the word, saying, ‘Well, if you’ve secured the area, then take your population back’,” said St-Pierre.

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