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| Africa Subsaharan |
| UNICEF Resumes Aid to NE Nigeria after Convoy Attack |
| 2016-07-31 |
| [ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] UNICEF will continue to provide assistance to millions of conflict-affected children in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , despite an attack on its convoy by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... turbans, the UN children's agency has said. The Takfiris ambushed a humanitarian convoy that included workers from UNICEF, UNFPA, and IOM while returning from Bama in northeast Borno state on Thursday, injuring several people, including two soldiers, and prompting UNICEF to temporarily suspend relief assistance to review the situation. "We are working at full strength in the Borno state capital Maiduguri," UNICEF Nigeria Representative Jean Gough said in a statement late Friday. "We continue to call for increased efforts to reach people in desperate need across the state. We cannot let this heartless attack divert any of us from reaching the more than two million people who are in dire need of immediate humanitarian assistance." The agency urged donors and humanitarian organizations to scale-up the response to the emerging disaster in Borno state, the epicenter of Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency. "The violence has disrupted farming and markets, destroyed food stocks, and damaged or destroyed health and water facilities. We absolutely have to reach more of these communities," he said. UNICEF estimates that 244,000 children will suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone. And if they are not reached with treatment, one in five of them will die. |
| Posted by:Fred |