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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria army raids U.N. compound in city at center of Boko Haram conflict |
| 2017-08-13 |
| [AlAhram] Nigeria's military raided a United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... compound on Friday in the northeastern city at the epicenter of a conflict with Islamist insurgency 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... , a UN official said. The objective of the search could not be determined but it could damage an already tense relationship between the military, the United Nations and aid groups tackling one of the world's largest humanitarian crises sparked by the Boko Haram conflict. "Members of the Nigerian security forces entered a United Nations base for humanitarian workers in Maiduguri ... without authorization," said Samantha Newport, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The security forces, who arrived at about 5 a.m., "carried out a search of the camp and left at about 0800 hours," she said, adding that the UN has no information on the reason for the unauthorized search. "The United Nations is extremely concerned that these actions could be detrimental to the delivery of lifesaving aid to the millions of vulnerable people in the northeast of Nigeria," Newport said. The UN's top representative in Nigeria, the humanitarian coordinator, is communicating with the government about the incident, said Newport. Nigeria's theater commander for the conflict with Boko Haram, Ibrahim Attahiru, told Rooters he did not know the reason for the raid on the UN compound. Spokesmen for Nigeria's military did not respond to calls and messages seeking comment. A front man for Nigeria's presidency did not respond to a request for comment. |
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