The U.N. refugee agency says intercommunal fighting over scarce resources in Cameroon has triggered the mass exodus of more than 30,000 refugees to neighboring Chad. Deadly clashes erupted December 5 in the Cameroonian border village of Ouloumsa following a dispute between herders, fishermen and farmers over dwindling water resources. Violence then spread to neighboring villages,…
More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after ethnic clashes erupted this weekend, claiming at least 22 lives, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Violence broke out in the border village of Ouloumsa on Sunday last week in a dispute between herders, fishers and farmers over dwindling water resources, the refugee agency said in a statement issued from Geneva, Switzerland.
It then spread to neighboring villages, 10 of which have been burned to the ground, the UNHCR said.
The clashes have displaced thousands inside Cameroon, “forcing more than 30,000 people to flee to neighboring Chad,”
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by renewed intercommunal clashes that erupted this week in Cameroon’s Far North region, displacing thousands
More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after ethnic clashes erupted at the weekend, claiming at least 22 lives, the UN's refugee agency said on Friday.