More than 200 Nigerian former Boko Haram combatants were received on Sunday, August 22, 2021, at the Meri transit center, in the Far North region of Cameroon, CRTV reported.
According to the official broadcast media, with these new arrivals of repentant fighters, the center is now overwhelmed.
“More than 200 ex-Boko Haram combatants of Nigerian origin welcomed this Sunday, August 22 at the Meri transit center in Diamaré (Far North). The center is now overwhelmed,” camerounactuonline.com learned from Crtv web sources.
With this new figure, the center of Meri is populated by nearly 800 former Boko Haram combatants. Oumar Bichaîr, the head of the regional center of the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (CNDDR) of the Far North said in the July 21, 2021 issue of the bilingual national daily Cameroon Tribune indicated that: “only on July 19, 2021, 34 residents were welcomed at the Méri transit center in the Diamaré Division. Their first night on Cameroonian soil was spent at the CNDDR Far North regional office in Mora “, it read.
In detail, in addition to around 200 former armed men received at Meri in June and early July 2021, 183 other people had been received at this center, bringing the total number of residents to 574.
