{"id":5074,"date":"2017-12-20T21:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T04:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2017-12-20T22:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:07:02","slug":"fleeing-anglophonic-cameroonians-integrate-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/fleeing-anglophonic-cameroonians-integrate-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"How fleeing Anglophonic Cameroonians integrate in Nigeria ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"program--News programBlockHeader\">\n<p class=\"article__title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/414587\/400x225_414587.jpg?1513342200\" alt=\"Pidgin English helping fleeing Cameroonians integrate in Nigeria\" width=\"591\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<header class=\"article__header hidden-in-basic\">\n<div class=\"article__meta\">\n<address class=\"article__author\">REUTERS: \u00a0December 20,2017: Thousands in Cameroon\u2019s restive Anglophone regions have been fleeing into Nigeria in the wake of a military crackdown on secessionist group, the Ambazonia Governing Council (<span class=\"caps\">AGC<\/span>).<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<p>The refugees flooding into Nigeria are, however, helped by two factors. Most of them are hosted by relations across the border who are supporting them with food, clothing and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>The other factor being the pidgin English spoken on either side of the border. According to a <span class=\"caps\">UNHCR<\/span> official, the language also known as \u2018broken English\u2019 had made the integration process easier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shown-portable-only text--center\">Food and medicine are in limited supply. Four people have died of sicknesses since fleeing to Nigeria and the refugees sometimes sleep as many as 50 to a five-by-seven meter room, the <span class=\"caps\">UNHCR<\/span> official added.<\/div>\n<p>One of them justifies how the <span class=\"caps\">AGC<\/span> was fighting back by attacking security officers, he contends that the crackdown could provide the separatists with easy recruits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were walking for peaceful demonstrations \u2026 but it\u2019s because of the killing of our innocent people that is why our own people have started reacting,\u201d said Tiku Michael, a businessman, farmer, father of six and now a refugee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven \u2026 God himself, he will not allow things to go (on) like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations refugee agency <span class=\"caps\">UNHCR<\/span> is preparing for up to 40,000 refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroonian authorities say the English-speaking separatists pose a security threat that justifies their crackdown. An international arrest warrant has also been issued for leaders of the <span class=\"caps\">AGC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3>Story of a mother who fled with a canoe<\/h3>\n<p>When soldiers burst into her village in southwest Cameroon last month with guns blazing, small farmer Eta Quinta, 32, raced into the forest with three of her children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found a canoe and I used it to cross over with my kids, not knowing where my husband and my (other) two kids are,\u201d she told Reuters across the border in Nigeria, where thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have fled in past weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Quinta and her children walked for three days through the dense forests to reach a border crossing at the Agbokim Waterfalls. They remain without news of the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many pregnant women in the forest,\u201d Quinta said as she held her sick two-month-old baby whose head was covered by a white wooly hat. \u201cI have friends in the forest and am not sure if I will get to see them again or their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Genesis of the Anglophone crisis<\/h3>\n<p>What began last year as peaceful protests by Anglophone activists against perceived marginalisation by Cameroon\u2019s Francophone-dominated elite has become the gravest challenge yet to President Paul Biya, who is expected to seek to renew his 35-years in power in an election next year.<\/p>\n<p>Government repression \u2013 including ordering thousands of villagers in the Anglophone southwest to leave their homes \u2013 has driven support for a once-fringe secessionist movement, stoking a lethal cycle of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The secessionists declared an independent state called Ambazonia on Oct. 1. Since then, 7,500 people have fled to Nigeria, including 2,300 who fled in a single day on Dec. 4 fearing government reprisals after raids by separatists militants killed at least six soldiers and police officers.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of World War One, Germany\u2019s colony of Kamerun was carved up between allied French and British victors, laying down the basis for a language split that still persists.<\/p>\n<p>English speakers make up less than a fifth of the population of Cameroon, concentrated in former British territory near the Nigerian border that was joined to the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon the year after its independence in 1960. French speakers have dominated the country\u2019s politics since.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS: \u00a0December 20,2017: Thousands in Cameroon\u2019s restive Anglophone regions have been fleeing into Nigeria in the wake of a military crackdown on secessionist group, the Ambazonia Governing Council (AGC). The refugees flooding into Nigeria are, however, helped by two factors. 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