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UN humanitarian partners preparing for more aid to Nigeria: spokesman

Xinhua, July 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday said that UN agencies and partners are finalizing a plan to provide immediate assistance to at least 275,000 people living in 15 newly accessible military-controlled camps in Nigeria's Borno State, according to a UN spokesman.

They are also preparing for cross-border assistance from Cameroon into Banki, Nigeria, where 15,000 displaced people need urgent assistance, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here at a daily news briefing.

"Agencies such as the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are working with the Nigerian government to scale up assistance in northeastern Nigeria to help some 431,000 people, including malnourished children," he said.

Aid agencies urgently need a funding of 221 million U.S. dollars to ensure humanitarian response through the end of September in the Lake Chad Basin, which includes the northeastern part of Nigeria, he said.

In late June, UNICEF said that it has also identified 3,000 children who have become separated from their families and have started to register children with the aim of trying to trace their families.

From June 1 to June 15, WFP provided assistance to more than 37,000 displaced people in these 11 sites, and 3,200 children received a malnutrition prevention ration.

Boko Haram insurgents have mounted several attacks in recent weeks, displacing tens of thousands of people in the conflict-hit regions of the Lake Chad Basin. In Bosso area in the southeastern Niger, attacks displaced some 70,000 people. Assistance is being provided in the various sites where the displaced have settled. Enditem