How the Lake Chad Basin crisis is impacting communities in Cameroon

How the Lake Chad Basin crisis is impacting communities in Cameroon

How the Lake Chad Basin crisis is impacting communities in Cameroon Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by ongoing violence along the border between Cameroon and Nigeria amid recurrent epidemics and food insecurity. Kate Rankin January 16 2026, 12:09pm “I fled my village in 2019 after repeated attacks,” says Hawa Marie, an internally displaced woman now living in Mora. “We were afraid because of the gunfire. With my six childre…