United Nations (UN) humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, has approved $28 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support relief work for people running away from the Boko Haram attacks in the North Eastern part of Nigeria and other countries affected by the crisis.
A statement made available to Sunday Independent by the National Information Officer, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, Oluseyi Soremekun, at the weekend, stated that the fund is meant to support the displaced people in the region.
While approving the fund, Amos, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, stated: “The insurgency in the North East of Nigeria is having a devastating impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people,
“This allocation from CERF will be used to support people in the most vulnerable communities, who have been directly affected by the violence.
“It will provide urgently needed humanitarian relief, including food, clean water, shelter, medicine, protection and security, particularly for women and children, who are exposed to or have experienced violence and brutality.”
The UN agency stressed that more than 1.2 million Nigerians have been driven away from their homes as a result of Boko Haram-related violence.
It stated that over 150,000 people have fled to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, putting a further strain on some of the most vulnerable communities in the world.
According to the agency, the regionally coordinated $28 million rapid-response allocation will go to relief agencies operating in Nigeria ($10 million), Cameroon ($7 million), Niger ($7 million) and Chad ($4 million) given the urgent need to scale up humanitarian operations and assist those in need across affected countries.
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