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Chadians trickle home from nearby Cameroon, others seek refuge
6 Feb 2008 Chadians who had fled to Cameroon to escape fighting between rebel and government forces started trickling home Wednesday morning as an uneasy calm returned to the Chad capital, N'Djamena. Some were going home for the day and planned to return to Cameroon overnight. But others residents of the capital were still making their way across the border bridge to the security of the neighbouring Cameroon. -
Up to 20,000 Chadians flee to Cameroon border town
5 Feb 2008 A UNHCR team in the Cameroon town of Kousséri estimates that up to 20,000 people have crossed the river border with Chad to escape fighting in N'Djamena. -
UNHCR coordinates aid to 26,000 Central African Republic refugees
7 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency is launching an operation on Wednesday to help some 26,000 refugees who fled insecurity in the Central African Republic and are now living in precarious conditions along the border of Cameroon. -
Refugee herdsmen return to Nigeria
18 Apr 2005 A convoy of 420 refugees, mostly from the Fulani tribe who fled clashes in eastern Nigeria's Taraba state in 2002, have ended their exile in Cameroon and left for home. Many more are expected to follow later, travelling on foot with their livestock. -
Chadian refugees go home
27 Jul 2001 Tens of thousands of Chadians fled civil war in that country in the early 1980s. Now, the organized repatriation of refugees back to Chad is drawing to a close.