Nigeria: UN Envoy Condemns Latest Spate of Attacks in Nigeria

18 December 2014

The United Nations' top official in West Africa has strongly condemned a series of attacks in north-eastern Nigeria which reportedly left over 30 people dead and resulted in the abduction of some 200 others.

In a press release issued late today, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, denounced the "renewed waves of attacks" in Nigeria's Borno State and "the continuous violence against innocent civilians."

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