25.09.2008 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

Nigerian government has announced it is unprepared for tens of thousands of returnees who have fled the Southern Bakassi province over past month; it is calling on the UN for help; resources are said to be overstretched; town of Mbo has received further 80,000 returnees in addition to its regular population of 100,000 ("Government unprepared for returnee influx") [ID 25099]

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11.09.2008 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

Up to 100,000 Nigerians displaced from Bakassi in southern Nigeria are sheltering in makeshift camps 10 kilometres away in the state of Akwa Ibom ("Bakassi returnees overwhelm authorities") [ID 24763]

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17.06.2007 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

Query response on clashes on Bakassi Peninsula in November 2006 (arrests and detentions); current situation on Bakassi Peninsula; Nigerian citizens living on Bakassi Peninsula ("a-5473 (ACC-NGA-5473)") [ID 22111]

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24.05.2007 - Source: International Committee of the Red Cross

Northern part of the Bakassi Peninsula handed over to Cameroon, southern part under administrative control of Nigeria for a further 2 years ("Annual Report 2006") [ID 20847]

"Nigeria formally handed over government of the northern part of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon in August but was set to retain administrative control of the southern part of the territory for a further two years."

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