Nigeria: Boko Haram - Nigeria IDP Crisis Worsens

Abuja — As the continued Boko Haram attacks take its toll on Nigeria's North East region, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Thursday, warned that the nation's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) crisis is worsening still, rising to over 1.5 million.

Addressing a media conference to commemorate the 2015 World Refugee Day on Thursday, the UNHCR Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Angele Dikongue-Atangana, estimated that the number of IDPs in the affected North Eastern States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, has risen to 1,491,706.

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