Approximately 8,000 displaced persons seek resettlement

7744 people fleeing attacks by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, are waiting to find a place of resettlement at Kousseri, a town in the Extreme North Region near Chad.

Most of them, according to the Cameroonian Red Cross who was at their bedside were Cameroonians, “driven from their land by the Boko Haram extremists without faith or law.”

"These compatriots have become refugees in their own country, wandering in nature without a fixed abode,” lamented the humanitarian organization officials. Those displaced have mostly fled their respective villages for several months and would be left to themselves.

"We call on the government to help us, as well as humanitarian agencies, because our situation is difficult. We do not know if our children will also go to school like the rest of the children", complained some of them who spoke to APA news agency.

To these displaced Cameroonian, plus hundreds of Nigerians refugees who arrive daily in the Extreme North of Cameroon because of the atrocities of Boko Haram.