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IDPs get UN cash support in Nigeria's Borno State

Xinhua, July 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Many Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northeast Nigeria's Borno state had benefited from its different cash support program aimed at improving their living condition, the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Sunday.

Victor Lahar, the Head of the Maiduguri Sub-office of the organization, stated this in Maiduguri.

Lahar said the cash program would enable the IDPs to chose the kind of food they wanted to cook as well as allow them to buy some basic needs of life.

The UN official declined to give the exact number of the IDPs that had benefited from the program.

Lahar said the UN also had another cash program called the Bouncing Back Support which was aimed at making IDPs self reliant after returning home.

About 200,000 IDPs who were victims of the Boko Haram terrorism are currently taking shelter in different camps in the state. Endit