Boko Haram: Un Allocates $10m To Nigeria For Humanitarian Response

Source: thewillnigeria.com

SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, (THEWILL) – ‎The UN Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr Stephen O'Brien, has allocated 10 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support humanitarian partners in Nigeria.

This was revealed in a statement issued by Mr Jens Laerke, from OCHA, New York on Tuesday.

The CERF funding, he said, would provide life-saving assistance to almost 1.7 million affected people in the four countries affected by Boko Haram.

It added that the CERF funding for Nigeria would also be critical for providing emergency shelter, health care, safe drinking water and sanitation and nutrition for affected people currently living in overcrowded camps, in the North East of the country.

It stated that humanitarian partners in Cameroon, Chad and Niger would receive seven million dollars each while Nigeria would receive 10 million dollars making a total of 31 million dollars for the Chad Basin region.

OCHA estimated 2.7 million people, of whom 1.5 million are children, had been displaced in the region, making it the fastest growing displacement crisis in Africa.

The UN's global humanitarian fund provides immediate funding for life-saving humanitarian action at the onset of emergencies and for neglected crises that have not attracted sufficient funding.

Since its inception in 2006, 125 UN Member States and Observers, private-sector donors and regional governments have supported the Fund.

To date, CERF has allocated almost 4.2 billion dollars in support of humanitarian operations in 94 countries and territories.

Story by David Oputah