Cameroon: UNHCR Steps Up Efforts to Move Refugees to Safety As Violence Spills Over Border

press release

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 23 September 2014, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNHCR is stepping up efforts to move some 5,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon away from the border town of Fotokol amidst ongoing cross border attacks by insurgents. Refugees fled from the nearby Nigerian town of Gambaru Ngala, which fell under insurgent control earlier this month.

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