2.7m displaced in Niger need urgent aid

Ahead of World Refugee Day tomorrow, U.N. agencies say rapid assistance is needed for the more than 2.7 million people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin over the past three years. The United Nations has called it the fastest growing displacement crisis in Africa. Security continues to deteriorate in southeast […]

Ahead of World Refugee Day tomorrow, U.N. agencies say rapid assistance is needed for the more than 2.7 million people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin over the past three years.
The United Nations has called it the fastest growing displacement crisis in Africa.
Security continues to deteriorate in southeast Niger following a fresh spate of attacks by Boko Haram this month.
Tens of thousands of people have flooded the city of Diffa after militants attacked the border town of Bosso. Diffa was already hosting 240,000 displaced people, many of them from Nigeria.
Belkacem Machane, the deputy country director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Niger just returned from a visit to the worst affected areas.
“We went through the main road called ‘Route Nationale Numero 1,’ which is the main road going to Bosso and we saw so many people moving around the road,” said Machane.