Chad: Refugees in Cameroon face dilemmas

from ReliefWeb

Just three days after moving to her new, permanent home as a Chadian refugee in Cameroon, 55-year-old Esther Deborah walks directly to her tent at the edge of a freshly-erected camp. "The house is not much farther," she reassures us with every other step.

She folds back the crisp white pieces of fabric that make up the door, revealing her daughters — ages eight and 10. "We are suffering here," she says. "But we can't go back to N'Djamena (Chad's capital) yet. Our house was destroyed—they stole everything."

Scared to go home — and unsure of what she could go back to — Esther Deborah will stay in northern Cameroon for now.

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