UNHCR needs $174.4m to assist victims of Boko Haram

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United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has issued an urgent funding appeal for 174.4 million dollars to help 192,000 refugees fleeing the violence in North East of Nigeria.
The funding also foresees a plan to respond to any additional population movements amid unrelenting volatile climate across Nigeria’s Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe.
The appeal was contained in a statement issued on Friday in New York by UNHCR Regional Representative for West Africa and Coordinator for the Nigeria Refugee situation, Liz Ahua.
“Displaced people in north-eastern Nigeria and across borders are in a very dramatic situation; they fear for …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper