The United Nations has temporarily
suspended aid deliveries in Nigeria’s
north-eastern state of Borno, the former
stronghold of jihadists Boko Haram, after
a humanitarian convoy was attacked, the
UN children’s agency Unicef said on
Thursday.

Unicef said in a statement that unknown
assailants attacked the convoy on
Thursday as it returned to Maiduguri
from delivering aid in Bama, injuring a
Unicef employee and an International
Organization for Migration contractor.

“The United Nations has temporarily
suspended humanitarian assistance
missions pending review of the security
situation,” it said.

Nearly a quarter of a million children in
Borno suffer from life-threatening
malnourishment and around one in five
will die if they do not receive treatment,
Unicef said earlier this month.

Médecins Sans Frontières said on
Wednesday that severely malnourished
children were dying in large numbers in
north-east Nigeria , where food supplies
are close to running out.

By 2014, Boko Haram controlled territory
around the size of Belgium in north-east
Nigeria until most of it was recaptured
last year by the Nigerian army and troops
from neighboring countries.

More than 15,000 people have been killed
and at least 2 million displaced by Boko
Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria. The
group carries out suicide bombings in
north-east Nigeria and neighboring
Cameroon, Niger and Chad.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/nigeria-unicef-un-humanitarian-aid-attack