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Ngala Killian Chimtom in Maroua

Uprooted and forgotten, Cameroon’s climate refugees living in despair

Musgum chief Blama Ousman says authorities in Cameroon have done little to provide water for farmers impacted by climate change. © Killian Chimton

Aminatou Ibrahim scoops water from the floor of her seven-square-metre hut at the Dana camp site for internally displaced people in Maroua, in Cameroon’s Far North Region. It’s become a familiar routine. Like some 500 others at the camp who have fled inter-ethnic violence, Aminatou lives in a makeshift hut.

“Each time it rains our houses are flooded,” she says.

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