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Children starving in parts of Nigeria held by Boko Haram, UN children’s agency warns
19 July 2016 – About a quarter of a million children in Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria, are suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations children’s agency today announced. Of those,...
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UN chief condemns suicide attack in northern Cameroon, urging support to counter Boko Haram
1 Jul 201630 June 2016 – Condemning a deadly terrorist attack in Cameroon’s Far North Region,Secretary-...
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UN allocates $13 million from emergency fund to support people in north-eastern Nigeria
28 Jun 201627 June 2016 – The top United Nations relief official today released $13 million from a fund that...
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Women in displacement camps in Nigeria resort to transactional sex for survival
10 Jun 2016June 2016 – New assessments of the protection risks faced by the affected people living in Nigeria’...
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Thousands continue to flee Boko Haram attacks on Niger town – UN refugee agency
8 Jun 20167 June 2016 – Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in south-east Niger following near...
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Nigeria: Security Council condemns ‘heinous’ terrorist attack attributed to Boko Haram
4 Feb 2016Condemning in the strongest terms Saturday’s “horrific terrorist attacks” attributed to Boko Haram...
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Chad: UN provides emergency funds for tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence
11 Jan 2016With nearly 200,000 people in Chad in need of urgent aid – 50,000 of them uprooted by Boko Haram...
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Boko Haram violence an 'affront to humanity,' Ban declares, reaffirms UN support to Nigerian Government
5 Oct 2015United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the bomb attacks of 2 October in the...
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Fallout from Boko Haram violence fastest growing crisis in Africa, warns UN relief official
1 Oct 2015The humanitarian fallout from the violence inflicted by Boko Haram is the fastest growing crisis in...
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Boko Haram violence displaces 1.4 million children in Nigeria and beyond – UNICEF
18 Sep 2015The number of attacks by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and neighbouring countries has risen, and...