This year marks ten years of MSF’s presence in Mora, in Cameroon’s Far North region. Yet the reality remains unchanged: communities living near the Nigerian border continue to face the daily impacts of insecurity. After a decade of violence, these consequences are no longer exceptional events — they have become part of everyday life, shaping how people move, work, access care, and imagine their future. Both communities and humanitarian workers live with the chronic stress and psychological scars left by this protracted conflict.
Since 2009, the Lake Chad Basin crisis across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon has turn into a major regional humanitarian emergency.