ICC Note:
Boko Haram has displaced millions of people since their rise in 2009. Countries like Cameroon have received thousands of IDPs, but with the Nigerian military claiming victory over Boko Haram, leaders are thinking about how to relocate refugees back to Nigeria. It is difficult, however, to plan as Boko Haram is still actively terrorizing Nigeria. Christian areas, like Chibok village, have been particularly targeted and it will be important for those areas to receive additional humanitarian and security considerations to help them rebuild after such destruction.
3/06/2017 Cameroon (DW) – Cameroon, Nigeria and the UN refugee agency UNHCR have signed an agreement for the return home of 85,000 Nigerians who fled to Cameroon to escape attacks from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
“The agreement lays out the legal framework for the eventual voluntary return of Nigerian refugees who are living in the far north of Cameroon,” Roselin Okoro, the UNHCR’s deputy representative in Cameroon told DW.
Okoro said the signing of the agreement does not mean that refugees would start returning automatically.
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