Over 1,000 Nigerians, out of the thousands who fled attacks by Boko Haram jihadists to neighbouring countries, returned to their homeland this week, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday.
Between Monday and Wednesday, 1,187 Nigerians that had been sheltering across the border in Cameroon resettled in a refugee camp in the northeastern state of Adamawa “as a result of improvement in the security situation,” NEMA spokesman Sani Datti said in an emailed statement.
A further 15,000 Nigerians are expected to return to their country in the next few weeks, said Datti.
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