A still image taken from a video shot on December 9, 2017 shows a Cameroonian refugee woman carrying a child outside a center in Agbokim Waterfalls village, which borders on Cameroon, Nigeria. REUTERS/via Reuters TV
IKOM, Nigeria (Reuters) - When soldiers burst into her village in southwest Cameroon last month with guns blazing, small farmer Eta Quinta, 32, raced into the forest with three of her children.
"I found a canoe and I used it to cross over with my kids, not knowing where my husband and my (other) two kids are," she told Reuters across the border in Nigeria, where thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have fled in past weeks.
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