Friday, 15 July 2016

More Nigerians internally displaced due to Boko Haram war



The northeast coordinator for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency Muhammed Kanar said camps in the northeast set up to house people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict are swelling with new arrivals.

“The situation is getting overwhelming, because of the liberation of [displaced people] from local governments, liberated communities,” Kanar said.

One camp in the town of Monguno recently grew from 4,000 people to 30,000, and he expects it to grow further.

The UN’s Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Toby Lanzer, Lanzer had said that international donors needed to step in to stop thousands of deaths from malnutrition, as Nigeria could not handle the disaster given its shaky economy.

“4.4 million people in northeastern Nigeria are “severely food insecure,” but the country doesn’t have the resources to tackle this problem alone, “he said.

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