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World Bank budgets 800mln USD for Nigeria's NE region: official

Xinhua, April 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

The World Bank has budgeted 800 million U.S. dollars to support the rebuilding of the infrastructure destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgency in the restive northeast region, an official said.

Fatma Samoura, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, made the disclosure Thursday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital during a courtesy visit.

She said the World Bank have promised to leverage 800 million dollars for the North East to response to recovery, rehabilitation, de-mining, waste management and debris processing for the North East of Nigeria.

The UN was scaling up its presence in Borno and other Northeastern states ravaged by the insurgency, Samoura said.

She pledged that the UN would continue to complement the World Bank and the EU supports to address the root causes of poverty and exclusion in the North East. Endit