"Influx of refugees exposes Cameroon to food insecurity"

The influx of Central African and Nigerian refugees could expose some Cameroonian localities to starvation, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and rural development while Cameroon was celebrating with the international community, on world food day.

With the presence of 270,000 refugees of Central Africa and Nigeria scattered throughout several Cameroonian localities, food needs struggled to meet the increasingly growing demand.

According to MINADER, "If nothing is quickly done to effectively handle this situation, several localities will face famine within a relatively short period".

These include some localities in Eastern and far North regions which host most of Central African and Nigerian refugees because of insecurity prevailing in the two countries.

Among the communities exposed to famine are the particular departments of Logone and Chari, Mayo-Tsanaga and Mayo-Sava, in the Extreme that host the bulk of Nigerian refugees, and the Department of the Kadéï in the East of Cameroon, where the bulk of the Central African refugees are concentrated.

For the moment, the support from the international community, in this case, the WTO for agriculture (FAO) and WFP (WFP) allows at present to deal with the most pressing.