(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroonian officials gathered January 21 in Yaoundé to discuss the Anglophone crisis that started since November 2016 in the northwest and southwest regions; eight months after the emergency humanitarian plan in response to the crisis was launched.

Outcomes of this meeting led by the minister of territorial administration (Minat), Paul Atanga Nji, showed that the government has supported 60,345 people, under the emergency plan, spread over 12 districts in the southwest and 11 in the northwest.

“For some time now, there has been a massive return of displaced populations. There are now about 1,200 people in the two regions who have realized that calm and stability are gradually returning,”  said Mr. Atanga Nji.

The humanitarian assistance plan, let’s recall, was launched by the government on 20 June 2018. With a budget of XAF12.7 billion, it aims at supporting 74,994 people in both regions over the period 2018-2019. Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria are estimated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at 21,291.

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