“We Ran for Our Lives”: Over 200 Cameroonian Troops Storm Nigerian Village, Residents Flee in Panic.

It was a rainy, ordinary day in Danare, a small border community in Cross River State, until fear suddenly washed in not from a flood, but from the sight of heavily armed foreign soldiers.

Locals say more than 200 Cameroonian troops crossed into their village today, moving through residential areas under the cover of heavy rain. No shots were fired, but the psychological damage was instant. Mothers scooped up children. Men abandoned their farms. The entire community was thrown into chaos.

Videos quickly spread across social media, showing the soldiers patrolling streets that belong on paper to Nigeria.

A local leader, Hon. Kingsley Mbia, former Vice Chairman of Boki LGA, rushed to the scene and confronted the troops, telling them they were violating Nigeria’s sovereignty. The soldiers eventually pulled back, but not before leaving behind a deep sense of violation.

This wasn’t an isolated event. Residents say it’s at least the fourth time such an incursion has happened. They trace the problem back to two painful realities: the ongoing Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, which has sent thousands of refugees into Nigeria, and the unresolved bitterness from the Bakassi Peninsula handover years ago.

Many still remember 2017, when six people were killed in an alleged attack by Cameroonian forces. That wound has never fully healed.

For the people of Danare, the border has always been porous. But today felt different. Today, they are asking loudly: Where is the Nigerian government?