UNHCR struggles to help tens of thousands newly displaced by Boko Haram in Niger

An estimated 100,000 people fled regular cross-border attacks by Boko Haram on villages in Niger’s Diffa region in the past three months. They relocated along Route Number 1 and now live in makeshift shelters. ©UNHCR / BOUBACAR BAMBA


UNHCR and its partners are struggling to help an estimated 100,000 people newly displaced in recent weeks in south-east Niger’s Diffa region in attacks launched by Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency group. Our team in Niger says the situation is very serious with acute shortages of shelter and non-food items for the displaced. These include local villagers, internally displaced people from Niger, people who have been displaced several times and Nigerian refugees who were staying with host families or in sites for the displaced in a 10 to 30-km belt of land between the River Komadougou and Niger’s Route National No.1. Some 170 villages have been left empty in the Diffa region.
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