Lolo is a village in
Kadey Department,
East Region, Cameroon, which had a population of about 2,000 in 2013.
In the first months of 2014, the village of Lolo became home to approximately 10,000
refugees
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. fleeing the
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...
.
As of March 14, 2014, there were about 2,000 children in the camp.
On 21 February 2014, the
UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...
said the site, 46 kilometers from the border of the CAR, could take "up to 15,000 refugees."
On 3 June 2014, the
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольствен ...
reported:
A new round of food distributions began on 22 May. In Gado Badzere, Lolo, Borgop, and Timangolo sites 29,780 refugees in established sites and 17,369 refugees in transit points have benefitted from 30-day rations (total: 782 mt). Distributions are ongoing in Mbai Mboum and Garoua Boulai transit points.
A second location, designated "Lolo II", is located 3.4 km away, at Latitude 4.2833°, Longitude 14.9000°.
Traveling Luck for Lolo I, Cameroon (general), Cameroon
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Mbilé Refugee Camp is located near the village.
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Populated places in East Region (Cameroon)
Refugee camps in Africa
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