(Business in Cameroon) - China has just approved to Cameroon a donation worth CFA3 billion mainly made up of foodstuffs, to support refugee care. The grant was given to the head of World Food Program (WFP) for Cameroon, Abdoulaye Baldé, by the Chinese Ambassador to Cameroon, Wang Yingwu, we learnt.

The beneficiaries include victims of Boko Haram exaction in Nigeria, and the 2013 political instability in Central African Republic who escaped to Cameroon. According to UNHCR statistics, there are now 365,000 such refugees, mainly in the Far North and East regions of the country.

Let’s recall that a few months ago, the Chinese government contributed CFA1.7 billion to the implementation of the humanitarian assistance plan for the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon plagued by separatists’ violence.

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