Isolation fuels radicalization in arid north Cameroon

By Misha Hussain DOUGUI, Cameroon, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nafisa Isa lost her home when a dam broke and flooded her village. Treatments distributed by U.N. child agency UNICEF near the camp have been seized by unscrupulous government officials who then sell them to desperate mothers, Nafisa said. Her plight highlights the broader one in semi-arid Far North region, home to 4 million people - a fifth of Cameroon's population. Many say neglect by the government in Yaounde, 700 km (400 miles) away in the largely Christian south, has left the predominantly Muslim Far North with the country's worst development indicators.



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