UNICEF temporarily stops aid deliveries due to attack on convoy in Borno

The United Nations, UN, said yesterday that aid deliveries to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps in Borno State will temporarily be put on hold due to an attack on humanitarian convoy.

Reuters quoted UNICEF as saying in a statement that unidentified gunmen attacked the convoy yesterday as it returned to Maiduguri after delivering aid in Bama.

Staff of UNICEF, an International Organisation for Migration contractor, was injured in the process.

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

UNICEF had earlier this month declared that nearly a quarter of a million children in the state suffer from life-threatening mal-nourishment and fear that around one in five will die if they do not receive treatment.

Also, just last Wednesday, Medecins Sans Frontieres had noted that severely poor fed children were dying in large numbers in Northeast Nigeria, where food supplies are almost running out.

DAILY POST had broken the report that a team of United Nations, UN, officials were attacked on Thursday by Boko Haram.

The officials’ convoy, escorted by heavily armed soldiers, came under heavy attack as they made their way to Bama.

An impeccable source told our correspondent Thursday night that the officials, working for the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, were ambushed at an area close to Bama, under Konduga local government area of Borno State.

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