Refugees in Cameroon: Still a very disturbing situation

Findings were compiled at the third session of the ad hoc Committee responsible for the management of emergency situations in our countries. 136 286, this is the number of refugees welcomed in Cameroon since the beginning of the year 2014.

Strictly nothing to do with the 6,136 foreigners who arrived in the territory in 2013, in search of housing, health and safety. Today, they are nearly 245,000 refugees Cameroon welcomes, with a peak in the eastern region where there are close to 139,000.

Sufficient for René Emmanuel Sadi to have sounded an alarm Friday in the Conference Room of his Department.

In presiding over the work of the third session of the ad hoc interdepartmental Committee responsible for the management of emergencies concerning refugees in Cameroon, the Minister of Territorial Administration and decentralization (Minatd), Chairman of the Committee went straight to the goal, against a half dozen of his colleagues of the Government, representatives of organizations of the United Nations system.

"The refugee situation has hardly improved. According to corroborating information received thereon, this situation has worsened even», he said referring to the case of Cameroon.

Our country has, in fact, indicated the Minatd, continues to suffer, as the repercussions of the crisis that continues in the Central African Republic, than the perverse effects of the war which intensified against the Islamist sect Boko Haram.

The people to whom the Cameroonian authorities are needed to grant the necessary hospitality.

This involves the establishment of a package of measures. They include the allocation of new sites for implantation of new camps in the East and Adamawa regions.

The Cameroonian Government has also carried out the reinforcement of security at the borders and in the region of the far North especially.

There is also a reinforcement of epidemiological surveillance in the affected areas and the Organization of vaccination campaigns.

Thus, faced with the risk of cholera that points to the horizon with announced rains, stocks of drugs have been pre-positioned where the threat is felt.

These are all measures that have been welcomed by the Ambassador, head of delegation of the European Union, Françoise Collet who has, moreover, had to present his encouragement to the Government of Cameroon.

Regarding the insertion of young people in the areas concerned, we note the start-up of a Cameroon-EU partnership, a programme of support to combat poverty and its related effects like youth unemployment, making it easy prey to extremism.