Africa: Crisis in Africa's Lake Chad Basin 'Must Not Be Forgotten' - UN Humanitarian Chief

25 September 2015

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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