Displacement doubles in north Cameroon in flight from Boko Haram

DAKAR/YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of people in northern Cameroon who have fled their homes fearing the violence in neighboring Nigeria and cross-border raids by Islamist sect Boko Haram doubled in March to 117,000, a United Nations survey showed. Boko Haram, which wants to carve out an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria, recently…