UN Wants $1 Billion for Boko Haram Victims Next Year

The United Nations wants to provide $1 billion worth of supplies to victims of Boko Haram jihadists in northeast Nigeria next year as part of its Humanitarian Response Plan for 2017. The hope is that the aid will reach nearly seven million people who have been affected by the militant group’s insurgency, which has killed more than 15,000 people and forced more than two million to flee their homes over a seven-year period. “This is the largest crisis on the African continent and I am...

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