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Over 700,000 displaced children live in camps in NE Nigeria: UNICEF

Xinhua, June 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

More than 700,000 children, registered by Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, are living in camps as internally displaced people in the country's northeastern region, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

Half the 772,224 children have no family tracing, said Olusoji Adeniyi, a UNICEF emergency specialist, at a workshop in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Adeniyi said some of the children were traumatized and required psycho-social attention and support to appropriately reintegrate them into the society.

According to him, most of the children are victims of insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram.

He said the situation called for collective action from all concerned. "So, we must join hands in saving their lives and guaranteeing their future."

Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced families mostly in northeastern Nigeria since it launched its campaign of violence in 2009.

The Nigerian army has in the past year retaken most towns and villages previously under Boko Haram control in the northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. Endit