Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria
Highlights
- The security situation in north-eastern Nigeria and particularly in Borno State is volatile as suicide bombings against civilians and military installations continue to occur on a regular basis. Sweeping operations carried out by the Nigerian military have an equally disruptive effect on every-day life and further disrupt humanitarian actors' activities in the region.
- There have been seven attacks in Niger's Diffa department over the past month, which have resulted in 43 civilian deaths. In their wake, the populations of numerous villages have been forced to flee while others have left pre-emptively.
- In Cameroon, the security situation has deteriorated during the reporting period due to an increasing amount of kamikaze incursions that have resulted in 56 civilian deaths. The insurgent group is being targeted on multiple fronts by the Nigerian and Cameroonian MJTF forces and is increasingly resorting to guerrilla warfare as a result.
- Attacks continue to take place in Chad's Lake region. On 5 December, three suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a local market in Kelfoua, a town located 60 Km from Bagasola, killing 30 and wounding 200. In response to the growing climate of insecurity, the Chadian Government had placed the Lake Region under a state of emergency on 9 November, which is planned to end on 22 March 2016.