08.2006 - Source: Norwegian Country of Origin Information Center

Nigerian asylum seekers in the region ("Report on Fact-finding trip to Nigeria (Abuja, Lagos and Benin City) 12-26 March 2006") [ID 18706]

"Alphonse Malanda, UNHCR representative for Nigeria and ECOWAS, stated that only very few Nigerians have applied for refugee status at UNHCR offices in neighbouring countries, the main exception being a large group who crossed into Cameroon after riots in Taraba and Benue states in 2000. Voluntary repatriation for this group came to an end in December 2005."

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16.06.2004 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

The Nigerian government to start repatriating more than 17,000 people who fled from eastern Nigerian into Cameroon ("17,000 refugees to be repatriated from Cameroon") [#23370],  [ID 15354]

"The Nigerian government said on Wednesday that it planned to start repatriating more than 17,000 people who fled from eastern Nigerian into Cameroon following ethnic clashes two years ago.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in a statement obtained by IRIN, said that the return of the mainly pastoralist Fulani people to a mountainous frontier area in Taraba state would start next week. [...]

“The process of repatriating the people includes the establishment of reception centres, meeting the local people and informing them of the desire of the federal government to bring back their brethren and soliciting their cooperation in ensuring that no hostility resurfaced again in the areas,” he said.

At least 23,000 Fulani herders fled into nearby Cameroon to escape clashes which broke out with farming communities on the Mambilla plateau between 1 and 7 January 2002. More than 100 people were killed in the clashes."

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23.03.2004 - Source: Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe

Expert opinion on medical treatment of HIV-AIDS-patients in Nigeria ("Nigeria - Medizinische Versorgung von HIV/AIDS-PatientInnen. Gutachten der SFH-Länderanalyse") [#22494],  [ID 15355]

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29.12.2003 - Source: BBC News

Some 500 Nigerian migrants have been sent home from Morocco ("Nigerians deported from Morocco") [#18411],  [ID 15356]

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14.10.2002 - Source: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs ("Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken: Algemeen Ambtsbericht Nigeria / september 2002") [#9305],  [ID 15357]

"4.3 Beleid andere EU-landen
In de ons omringende landen worden geen categorieën Nigeriaanse asielzoekers
onderscheiden bij wie de kans groter is dat zij in aanmerking komen voor een
vluchtelingenstatus. Al deze landen gaan in principe over tot gedwongen terugkeer
van uitgeprocedeerde afgewezen Nigeriaanse asielzoekers. De feitelijke terugkeer
wordt dikwijls bemoeilijkt door het ontbreken van (vervangende) reisdocumenten.
Dit verklaart waarom de aantallen gerepatrieerde Nigerianen in bepaalde landen
aan de lage kant zijn. Niet is gebleken dat terugkerende afgewezen asielzoekers
problemen hebben ondervonden, enkel omdat zij in het buitenland asiel hadden
aangevraagd.
[...]

In andere Europese landen en bij UNHCR bestaan geen beleidsmatige bezwaren
tegen uitzetting van afgewezen asielzoekers naar Nigeria. Er zijn geen berichten
bekend dat teruggekeerde uitgeprocedeerde afgewezen asielzoekers problemen
van de zijde van de overheid zouden hebben ondervonden wegens hun
asielaanvraag."

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