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So Bad: About 7.1 Million Boko Haram Survivors Reportedly Eat One Meal A Day by owoicho13(m): 12:33pm On Jan 24, 2017
Lanzer said that no fewer than 11 million survivors of the destructive Boko Haram insurgents are in desperate need of humanitarian aids

The top United Nations humanitarian official for the Sahel region also called for international solidarity with the people in urgent need

Lanzer said that the UN emergency official regretted that the condition of the victims of the insurgents was dire

No fewer than 11 million survivors of the destructive Boko Haram insurgents are in desperate need of humanitarian aids.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Toby Lanzer, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, said this while spotlighting the desperate plight of millions in Africa’s Lake Chad basin.

The top United Nations humanitarian official for the Sahel region also called for international solidarity with the people in urgent need.


Lanzer told UN Correspondents at the UN Headquarters in New York that the Boko Haram crisis did monumental destruction to the Lake Chad basin countries, which include Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.

The UN emergency official regretted that the condition of the victims of the insurgents was dire adding,

“I wish I had good news, but I don’t”.

“About 11 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, 7.1 million of them are severely food insecure.

“To say “food insecure”, according to World Food Programme, is that they are living on the edge, surviving on, if they can, one meal a day,” he said.

Lanzer added that among the situation of children is particularly worrying.

“Some 515,000 children are severely and acutely malnourished and their lives are at risk if aid does not reach them urgently.

“No government on earth can do what it takes to confront these numbers of severe food insecurity.

“This is a clear case where international solidarity with the governments of the region is needed,” he stressed.

According to him, the Sahel region already has about 2.5 million internally displaced persons (IDP).

Lanzer said improving security situation in the Lake Chad Basin region had revealed the depth of the humanitarian suffering of survivors of the destructive insurgent group.

“The scale of humanitarian suffering in the region has become increasingly evident with improving security situation as a result of the military campaign against Boko Haram.

“This has allowed humanitarian actors to reach many places which were impossible to get to earlier due to insecurity.

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Re: So Bad: About 7.1 Million Boko Haram Survivors Reportedly Eat One Meal A Day by owoicho13(m): 12:33pm On Jan 24, 2017
Re: So Bad: About 7.1 Million Boko Haram Survivors Reportedly Eat One Meal A Day by thesicilian: 12:35pm On Jan 24, 2017
Most Nigerians now eat 1 - 2 meals per day. So it's nothing unusual.

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Re: So Bad: About 7.1 Million Boko Haram Survivors Reportedly Eat One Meal A Day by sarrki(m): 12:35pm On Jan 24, 2017
Sad

Sososo sad

This is where I expected our religious body to come in and help

Tell me among all the so called religious body aside Tb Joshua that helps the needy in the northeast.

If for anything I give it to him .

I may not believe in his doctrine but in helping the needy I give it to him

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