Sunday, 23 June 2013

State of Emergency: 1,500 Refugees Flee to Cameroon


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Nigerian Ambassador to Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Mustapha
The recent fallout of the state of emergency declared by the federal government is the movement of about 1,500 refugees who  fled from Nigeria into the northern part of Cameroon. This figure is about half the figure being brandished by some media reports, which estimated that the number of refugees is over 3000.
Nigerian Ambassador to Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Mustapha, told newsmen in her office in Yaounde, that contrary to those media reports  the official estimate as ascertained by the United Nations Refugee Commission (UNRC) and the Cameroonian authorities was half of that.

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