There is considerable progress in the implementation of the Special Relief Intervention - an initiative launched in Maiduguri by the Federal Government on June 8 to deliver effective and comprehensive humanitarian aid especially food to persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east, according to an update report made to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday.
The initiative which is part of a broad plan to address food shortage in the camps and other settlements of displaced persons, is now delivering assorted grains to internally displaced (through over 1000 trucks) and already has reached 12,691 households in Borno State since the flag off by the Acting President on June 8.
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