... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
after a 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...attack killed three aid workers, the UN said on Saturday.
The attack happened on Thursday evening in Rann, near the border with Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, where nearly 80,000 people depend on emergency food aid and medical care.
At least one other aid worker was critically injured and another three were missing. Eight Nigerian soldiers were also killed.
A UN spokeswoman in Abuja, Samantha Newport, told AFP: "Operations in Rann were temporarily suspended for one week from yesterday morning (Friday).
"Yesterday, we evacuated 52 aid workers and the three deceased, in addition to 300 kilos (661 lbs) of medical supplies that were going to go bad."
The aid workers are not believed to have been specifically targeted but were caught up in an attack on the military.
Those killed were Nigerians working for the International Organization for Migration and the UN children's fund Unicef. The injured and missing are also locals.
Newport said an assessment would be conducted in the coming days about damage caused to facilities used in the relief effort, as well as security.
But she said there would be "extremely minimal impact" on people in Rann, where 55,000 people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict are housed in a camp.
Operations elsewhere in the region were also continuing as normal, she added.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has worked in Rann since January 2017, announced on Friday it had suspended medical activities and withdrawn 22 staff.
It said it would return "as soon as the conditions allow".