Government sponsors the return of Cameroonian migrants from Libya, and promises to take care of them
From the moment they landed at the Douala International Airport from Libya and Algeria , the 18 young Cameroonian migrants who returned to the country as part of a government-sponsored return campaign expressed joy at returning home, after months for some and years for others. Today, Wednesday's edition of Cameroon Tribune reveals stories of Yacouba Njikam, 32, and Abdoul Wahabou, 21, two of the returnees, who narrate the misery they lived in these border countries to try to access Europe. Abdoul, a young boy, walked several kilometers in the desert from one city to another. Many of their companions stayed in the desert for lack of energy to continue. "I spent one year three months out of the country. We went through Nigeria, Niger. Arrived at the border with Algeria, my misery began. I was abandoned in the desert. I was with a lady who died because of lack of water and left me with her one-year-old baby in her arms," - he says. Meanwhile...