Refugee crisis in NW and W Cameroon

Situation mapped by UNHCR Feb 2025

Situation update UNHCR Oct 2025

The situation continues to worsen with the civil unrest in Anglophone Cameroon. A most disadvantaged region with a Francophone government. This hidden issue continues to be under reported in a world of more newsworthy conflicts.

This initiated in 2014 when Cameroon began taking refugees from less stable Central African Republic and Chad

Families forcibly displaced from their villages and schools fleeing from coercion and impact of civil war compounded and exacerbated by impacts of climate change and terrorist groups like Boko Haram.