The North is strongly destabilized by Boko Haram - United Nations

The special representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Central Africa, Abdoulaye Bathily, is expected on Wednesday, before the Security Council of the United Nations for his report on the activities of the regional office of the United Nations.

The impact of the actions of the terrorist group Boko Haram in the region is a growing cause for concern, because the Islamist sect played a destabilizing role in certain border regions of Nigeria, and in particular the extreme north of Cameroon.

In the report, which will be pressented Wednesday to the Security Council, the office of the United Nations for Central Africa sounded an alarm on the increasing number of Boko Haram attacks along the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, and in the northern provinces of the latter. A United Nations delegation, sent to the region late October, found on-site economy destabilized by the crisis.

The findings reported a surge in the price of imported products from Nigeria. Thousands of young people are unemployed due to the reduction of cross-border activities and some localities which lived on trade have been deserted by traders.