Cameroon's English-speaking minority seek help in Nigeria

English-speaking Cameronians say they have been marginalised by the French-speaking majority in the country.

By Zeynep Şahin
Mariamu Abubakar, a farmer reacts during an interview as he describes that Cameroonian soldiers killed about 150 people in his village near Nigeria’s Banki border post, stole their livestock and set their huts ablaze, as he sits at Furore camp in Yola, Nigeria. / AP Archive

More than 40,000 people from Cameroon have fled a military crackdown in their country and crossed into southeastern Nigeria since October.  

But the local government there says it no longer has enough food and other supplies to take care of the increasing numbers.

TRT World's Wendy Agbo reports from Benue in Nigeria.