UNHCR spokesperson, Andrej Mahecic, said tensions between security forces and pro-independence demonstrators in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region intensified in October.
Mahecic said “Joint UNHCR and government teams had registered some 7,204 arrivals in remote areas of Nigeria’s Cross River state.
“As they report, thousands more are awaiting registration.
“Some 70 per cent of the registered asylum seekers come from the area of Akwaya in South-west Cameroon.
“Women and children in their majority, they are hosted by local communities near the border.
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Monday received 167 stranded Nigerians from Libya, bringing the total number of Nigerians brought back to the country in the last four days to 532.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with Registration Number 5A-DMH, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 7:47 p.m.
The returnees were assisted back to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, and the European Union, EU.
They comprised 21 adult females, 145 adult males and one child.