The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says women in the Lake Chad basin are being forced into prostitution to survive.

ICRC attributed it to an insurgency by Boko Haram fighters that had driven millions from their homes and left children to starve.

“The violence has displaced over 2.4 million people across the swamp lands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet, and disrupted the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of others,” the agency said.

According to the United Nations, up to a million people have been cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko Haram in spite of a regional military offensive against the Islamist militants.

“It’s extraordinary to see a woman and her family and they have nothing other than what they have been given,” Simon Brooks, head of ICRC’s delegation in Cameroon, said.

“The children are clearly malnourished and it’s just hopeless.”

According to Brooks, as the head of their households, some mothers have been forced to prostitute so they could feed their family, since many no longer have husbands because of the conflict.

“When you don’t have the means to survive, you’ll go begging for it,” he said.

“It’s a loss of dignity when you’re having to resort to something like that just to keep your children alive – fraternising with people who have money.”

The unfolding catastrophe in the Lake Chad basin was named the most neglected crisis of 2016 in a poll of aid agencies by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Overshadowed by the wars in Syria and Iraq and the global refugee and migrant crisis, Lake Chad has barely made the headlines,’’ Brooks said during an interview in London.

Report says over 7 million people lack food but insecurity makes it hard for aid agencies to reach the most vulnerable.

“Half a million children are severely acutely malnourished and on the brink of death if they are not treated,” Brooks said.

“This area has suffered from decades of chronic neglect … if it continues to be under-funded and under-reported, then millions of people will continue to suffer.”

sarrki:
ED of wailing wailers
It's not recession that caused this ooo

BeeBeeOoh:
Did you check who or the organization that reported the news or you are just trying to earn your pay??



Believe me, you've lost it bro. Your case is now irreversible

sarrki:


I will rather ask you to read it.

Your hero did nothing to contain the spread of Boko Boiz
Rather he turned the money meant to fight the insurgency to ATM machine operated by dasuki

Baba is doing everything to clear all the mess your hero caused.

BeeBeeOoh:
Be Sincere To Yourself And Answer These Questions:

1. Who Headed The Arm Procurement During GEJ's Era??

2. How Many House(s) Did The Person Bought Overseas?? And Lastly,

3. What's The Person's Name??


God Be Your Strength As You Run Around Nairaland To Defend The Indefensible

BeeBeeOoh:
Be Sincere To Yourself And Answer These Questions:

1. Who Headed The Arm Procurement During GEJ's Era??

2. How Many House(s) Did The Person Bought Overseas?? And Lastly,

3. What's The Person's Name??


God Be Your Strength As You Run Around Nairaland To Defend The Indefensible

talktimi:
Yet somebody used 250 million naira to cut grass... Do you know how many bags of rice can be boutght with such amount even at 25k per bag ? Buhari and his demonic friends shall have their day of judgement

Sibrah:
Do you know how many N250m is inside $2.1Bn( N800Bn )?

That's 3,200 X N250m . . .

sarrki:


Obanikoro, Sambo dasuki, Alex badeh &;Sola Amosu
Are all criminals.

But don't get it twisted they have Oga @ the Top
Which is your hero

Nigerians voted Gej to rule
So the bulk of the blame is on him now and forever

BeeBeeOoh:
When you start being truthful to yourself may be we could talk.. Goodnight

sarrki:


I will rather ask you to read it.

Your hero did nothing to contain the spread of Boko Boiz
Rather he turned the money meant to fight the insurgency to ATM machine operated by dasuki

Baba is doing everything to clear all the mess your hero caused.

Kondomatic:
I still put it to your again that you have short memory.

If Buhari had agreed to represent Bokoharam in dialogue with Jonathan's men, Nigeria would have defeated bokoharam at it's early stage but your baba refused because an attack on bokoharam that time was an attack on the whole north.

Kondomatic:
I still put it to your again that you have short memory.

If Buhari had agreed to represent Bokoharam in dialogue with Jonathan's men, Nigeria would have defeated bokoharam at it's early stage but your baba refused because an attack on bokoharam that time was an attack on the whole north.

sarrki:


I will rather ask you to read it.

Your hero did nothing to contain the spread of Boko Boiz
Rather he turned the money meant to fight the insurgency to ATM machine operated by dasuki

Baba is doing everything to clear all the mess your hero caused.

sarrki:


Obanikoro, Sambo dasuki, Alex badeh &;Sola Amosu
Are all criminals.

But don't get it twisted they have Oga @ the Top
Which is your hero

Nigerians voted Gej to rule
So the bulk of the blame is on him now and forever

BeeBeeOoh:
Be Sincere To Yourself And Answer These Questions:

1. Who Headed The Arm Procurement During GEJ's Era??

2. How Many House(s) Did The Person Bought Overseas?? And Lastly,

3. What's The Person's Name??


God Be Your Strength As You Run Around Nairaland To Defend The Indefensible