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Thousands Flee Boko Haram Clashes on Cameroon-Nigeria Border

At least 3,000 people have been displaced in renewed fighting along the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, according to forces battling Boko Haram militants, Moki Edwin Kindzeka reports for Voice of America.

Refugees at Minawao - a camp on Cameroon's northern border with Nigeria - say the number of people seeking humanitarian assistance in the camp is increasing by the day.

Boko Haram attacks broke out in Nigeria in 2009 before spreading to neighbouring countries, including Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

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A 15 year-old Nigerian refugee at the Minawao refugee camp in northern Cameroon (file photo).

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