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Far-North Cameroon

The conflict between non-state armed groups and government forces in the Lake Chad region has been ongoing for 10 years. People in north-eastern Nigeria have borne the brunt of the violence, but people in neighbouring Cameroon are not spared. Today, there are more than 297,000 internally displaced persons and almost 114,000 Nigerian refugees living in Cameroon’s Far North, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR1.

Forgotten by the media, the people living in the Far North of Cameroon keep suffering daily from insecurity, in a region that is already suffering from poverty, fragile health systems, an under-funded humanitarian assistance and subject to an unpredictable climate.

MSF has been providing humanitarian assistance to people affected by insecurity, particularly in the border zone with Nigeria since 2015, and is currently working in Maroua, Kolofata, and other nearby regions, where they offer medical support, including nutritional care, mental health services, health promotion and emergency surgery in the event of mass casualties.

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