The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator today reminded the world to pay attention to the Lake Chad Basin, now an epicentre of "violence and terror" where children as young as six-years old have been used as suicide bombers and the scene of the fastest-growing displacement crisis in Africa.
"A quarter of a million people have fled across borders," Stephen O'Brien, the Under-Secretary-General of Humanitarian Affairs as well as the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator told the High-Level Event on the Lake Chad Basin. "Many have walked hundreds of kilometres from Nigeria to Cameroon, Chad and Niger, in the most appalling conditions."
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