A spokesperson of the UN has said nearly 40,000 more people had been forced to flee to Nigeria by worsening humanitarian situation in north-west and south-west regions of Cameroon.
Briefing UN correspondents in New York on Monday, Farhan Haq, a spokesman of the organisation, said 530,000 others had been internally displaced.
Haq said at Monday’s briefing that 2,800 protection violation incidents had been reported in the first six months of this year.
“House destruction and child protection violations are those reported in greatest numbers.
“Meanwhile, in the far north of Cameroon, attacks by non-State armed groups against villages have intensified since the beginning of the year, leading to new displacements.
“Around 1,300 people were reportedly being displaced last week alone.
“Attacks also resulted in dozens of civilian deaths, hundreds of houses set ablaze, and widespread looting of civilian goods,” he said.
The UN spokesman said the response in Cameroon remained one of the most “critically underfunded humanitarian responses globally” in spite of increased humanitarian needs.
According to him, only 20 per cent of the 300 million dollars requested by the humanitarian community this year has been received.
It would be recalled that The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported in 2016 on the crisis in the English-speaking regions started in 2016 when separatists launched an armed struggle for a breakaway state they call Ambazonia.
