Nigeria: World Bank - Boko Haram Stalls African Aid Projects

Threats and killings by Islamist militants are jeopardizing World Bank-funded agriculture, health and water projects in parts of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, a bank official says.

Makhtar Diop, a vice president for the financial institution, said the rebel group Boko Haram's terrorism has set back projects to improve the livelihoods of people in famine-stricken northern Cameroon and Nigeria and southern Chad.

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