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Chad: Nigeria Situation: Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) Monthly Regional Overview - May 2015

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Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria

REGIONAL SITUATION ANALYSIS

In May, large scale displacement persisted in Nigeria (about 1.5 million IDPs) and in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger (167,789 refugees). The security situation remains unstable. Insurgents continue to launch raids in north-eastern Nigeria despite the announcement of the Nigerian army of having them pushed back.

General Muhammadu Buhari took oath of office on 29 May, and vowed to defeat Boko Haram. The following three days were overshadowed by six attacks, including suicide bombings in Borno State, where insurgents killed over 30 people. IDPs in north-eastern Nigeria are increasingly returning home despite persistent insecurity, critical lack of access to basic services (food, health, education) and concerns remain over mines, IEDs and unexploded ordnance in locations where IDPs are planning to return.

At the same time the situation in the region has deteriorated after insurgents on 25 April attacked Karamga Island, on Lake Chad which left at least 74 people dead. Subsequently, Niger authorities ordered the population living on the Lake’s islands to leave the area in order to launch a military operation against the insurgents. The evacuation/deportation of local people and refugees resulted in massive internal displacements in Niger as well as in Chad (about 50,000 including local community, Nigerian refugees and migrants2 ). About 16,000 Nigerian refugees voluntarily decided to go back home and have been registered by NEMA, in Nigeria. However, a group of 45 individuals were refouled and later, after international pressure, re-admitted in Niger.

The limited number of humanitarian actors and the extremely limited access to the areas where refugees and IDPs are living as well as logistic constrains imposed by bad roads are making a comprehensive humanitarian intervention almost impossible. Furthermore, in most of the countries the number of refugees and third countrynationals is exceeding the local population and therefore increasing the risk of conflict due to the competition over the already limited resources.


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