Executive Director UNICEF, Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, on Tuesday, said the brutal years of Boko Haram insurgency had left a devastating impact on the children in northeast Nigeria.
Lake stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in New York on the situation of children in northeast, Nigeria.
“The violent conflict in northeast Nigeria has left children severely malnourished and at risk of death.
“In the three worst-affected states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, farming has been disrupted and crops destroyed, food reserves depleted and often pillaged, and livestock killed or abandoned.
“In Borno, where the fighting has been most brutal, 75 per cent of the water and sanitation infrastructure and 30 pe cent of all health facilities have been destroyed, looted or damaged.
“The impact on children is…
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