Tag: IDPs
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UN pledges more support for IDPs in DR Congo’s Ituri province
United Nations (UN) top peacekeeping official, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has stated that the UN will work together with the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as other partners, in ensuring security in the eastern part of the country, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN’s top peacekeeping official,
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UN officials, NGOs diverting, mismanaging donor funds for IDPs – Zulum
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has accused the United Nations and other international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) of diverting and mismanaging funds donated for displaced people in the northeastern region of the country. Zulum shared his thoughts at the Borno State Government House on Wednesday when the UN Humanitarian Coordinator Edward Kallon led ambassadors of…
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Insecurity: Boko Haram mounting pressures on IDPs to join them – Gov Zulum
Governor of Borno state, Babagana Umara Zulum has raised the alarm that the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents were recruiting fresh members, mostly from the internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the governor, “truly, the Boko Haram sect is working on people to join them. This is frightening. If the IDPs living in camps could not…
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Hunger: IDPs in Abuja beg FG for palliatives
The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Wasa community of the Federal Capital Territory have appealed to the Federal Government to provide them with food palliatives and other needs to ease their lives. Mr Joffrey Bitrus, the Chairman of Wasa IDP Camp, who spoke with journalists on Thursday, alleged that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs had…
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COVID-19: UN launches emergency response in North East, IDPs camps
The United Nations (UN) has announced plans to begin an emergency response in the North East region of Nigeria to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the region. A statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, quoted Mr Edward Kallon, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria as saying that the displaced persons had already suffered…
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Adamawa IDPs reject NEMA’s food intervention
The aggrieved Internally Displaced Persons in Fufore International Transit camp, in Adamawa, have rejected the foodstuffs supplied to them by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the IDPs on Wednesday staged a protest over shortage of food in the camp They said NEMA had not supplied food…
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IMF expresses worry over rising numbers of IDPs in Nigeria
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it is concerned with the rising numbers of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries. IMF said this on Friday in Washington DC in its latest Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa report presented by Director of the IMF’s African Department, Mr Abebe Selassie. According…
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Boko Haram: IDPs protest over hunger, neglect in Maiduguri
…as NEMA insists protest not because of hunger The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday dismissed as misleading reports alleging that some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) staged a demonstration to protest lack of food at the Teachers’ Village IDPs camp in Maiduguri. In a statement, Mr Sani Datti, the Head of Media and Public…
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![[Photos] Dangote Foundation feeds 30,000 IDPs in Zamfara](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_4968.jpg)
[Photos] Dangote Foundation feeds 30,000 IDPs in Zamfara
The Aliko Dangote Foundation on Monday officially launched a major philanthropic programme in Zamfara State, doling out food items running into several millions of naira to support victims of insurgency. The farmers-herders clash and sporadic attacks by cattle rustlers have displaced thousands, many of whom are currently seeking refuge at Maradun Local Government Area of…
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Atiku to jail looters in Buhari’s administration, fight system-wide corruption
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will open a system-wide fight against corruption as soon as he is elected into office. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports this is contained in a Sunday statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party. According to the statement, “all those looting the…