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This is a summary of what was said through UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch, who can be attributed the above-mentioned text, at today’s press convention at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, strongly condemns a brutal, no-seat attack on a site housing 800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the village of Nguetchewe in Cameroon’s far north region. At least 18 other people were killed and 11 injured in the morning incident on Sunday, August 2, when the attackers threw an explosive device, believed to be a grenade, at the makeshift camp while other people were asleep. Some of the wounded were evacuated to the Mokolo district hospital, an hour’s drive from Nguetchewe. Some 1,500 more people, adding the terrified citizens of the host village, fled nearby through the town of Mozogo to safety. UNHCR is deploying an emergency project to assess the scenario and assess the coverage and fitness wishes of those affected. Local communities in this impoverished domain are the first to respond to those fleeing the growing lack of confidence and violence in the domain that covers Lake Chad and northeastern Nigeria. Infrequently, they are connected and share with them the few resources they have. Against a backdrop of growing lack of confidence, UNHCR anticipates that network, shelter, water and sanitation coverage will be needed as the country responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNHCR urges all actors to respect the civilian and humanitarian nature of IDP camps and to respond temporarily to the urgent wishes of those who have fled violence and have been displaced by multiple displacements. The attack follows a significant accumulation of violent incidents in Cameroon’s Far North region in July, adding looting and kidnapping through Boko Haram and other active armed teams in the region. The Far North region, located between Borno and Adamawa states in Nigeria and Lake Chad, is recently home to 321,886 internally displaced persons and 115,000 Nigerian refugees. The incident is also a sad reminder of the intensity and brutality of violence throughout the Lake Chad basin region, which has forced more than 3 million people to flee: another 2.7 million people are displaced in northeastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. , while 292,682 Nigerian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries. Cameroon reports that since January this year it has recorded 87 Boko Haram attacks on its northern border with Nigeria. Twenty-two of them were alone in the northern district of Mozogo. Violent attacks have claimed the lives of another 30,000 people and displaced more than 3 million people in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
Distributed through the APO Group on behalf of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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