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At Minawao refugee camp in northern Cameroon, UN staff are busy registering new arrivals. Refugees who cross the border in search of safety arrive at this camp, where they join over 30,000 others who fled the insurgency in Nigeria's northeastern states.
Most of the refugees started to come to the Minawao camp when Chadian, Cameroonian and Nigerian forces attacked Gambaru, Boko Haram's stronghold in Nigeria's Borno state, in early February.
Forty-one-year old Muhamadou Ousman, who comes from a family of 14, told DW that he lost all of his brothers when they refused to join Boko Haram.
"Boko Haram will come and attack you," Muhamadou Ousman said, describing how the militants went about recruiting people. "Can you join us? When you say no, they will kill you." Like many other refugees here, he fears for those he had to leave behind. "My mother just advised me to go," he recounted.
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