{"id":689347,"date":"2019-08-23T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">About 133 Nigerian refugees have returned from neighbouring Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The returnees are part of the over two million Nigerians displace"},"modified":"2019-08-23T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T05:59:13","slug":"nigeria-boko-haram-133-nigerian-refugees-return-from-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/23\/nigeria-boko-haram-133-nigerian-refugees-return-from-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Boko Haram &#8211; 133 Nigerian Refugees Return From Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">About 133 Nigerian refugees have returned from neighbouring Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The returnees are part of the over two million Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Most of those displaced are within Nigeria, but several thousands are also living as refugees in neighbouring countries like Cameroon and Chad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The 133 returnees touched down at the Yola International Airport aboard Nigerian Airforce C130 at about 5:00 p.m. local time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Officials of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, said the refugees volunteered to return home on their own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking to journalists, the Director, Refugees and Migrant Affairs of the commission, Lawal Hamidu, said that the exercise was not &#8220;repatriation, but the refugees voluntary signed to return to their ancestral homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Some of the refugees described their experiences while in Cameroon as nasty, with one saying &#8220;life over there was difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria has led to tens of thousands of deaths since 2009. 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