Accra – On Saturday morning, from the United Nations Logistics Base in Accra, Italy’s humanitarian flight left for the town of Maroua, in the north of Cameroon. The mission was organized by the Italian Cooperation to provide assistance to the thousands of internally displaced persons and Nigerian refugees in Cameroon – 74,000 according to United Nations estimates – who fled their homes because of the fundamentalist terrorist group “Boko Haram.” The cargo – worth a total of €120,000 – is part of the €350.000 contribution allocated by the Italian Cooperation to the International Organization for Migration in support of assistance activities for refugees, IDPs and host communities in northern Cameroon. (9Colonne)
