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Nigeria: Covid-19 Worsens Nigeria's Insecurity, Others, Says UN
Vanguard, 4 December 2020
United Nations, UN, has attributed Nigeria's growing insecurity to the COVID-19, adding that the disease also impacted negatively on the socio-economic development of the West… Read more »
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Mali: Child-Trafficking Increasing Because of Conflict and Covid-19
UNHCR, 1 December 2020
Conflict, insecurity, COVID-19 and deteriorating economic conditions are leading to a rise in trafficking of children, forced labour and forced recruitment by armed groups in Mali,… Read more »
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Africa: UN Again Warns Against Nationalism in Covid-19 Response
Premium Times, 4 December 2020
UN Chief says the world must unite to make coronavirus vaccines available to everyone, everywhere. Read more »
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Nigeria: Insecurity in Nigeria, Others Worsened By Covid-19 Pandemic - UN
This Day, 4 December 2020
The United Nations has said that the security challenges in West Africa and the Sahel, occasioned by violent attacks by terrorist groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West… Read more »
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Africa: COVID-19 Could Double Africa's Food Insecurity, WFP Chief Warns
VOA, 1 June 2020
The head of the World Food Program tells VOA the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity in Africa could more than double due to COVID-19. Executive Director David… Read more »
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Nigeria: Insecurity - 'Buhari May Appear Before Reps December 10'
Daily Trust, 4 December 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari may appear before the House of Representatives on December 10 or 15 over the deteriorating security situation in the country, House spokesman, Benjamin… Read more »
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Rwanda: Concern as Covid-19 Aggravates Food Insecurity Situation
New Times, 30 October 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down efforts to fight malnutrition whereby some people do not have access to healthy foods, or lack any foods for their sustenance, actors in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Needs Collective Efforts to Tackle Insecurity, Says Yusuf
This Day, 3 December 2020
Former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof Usman Yusuf, has said President Muhammadu Buhari led government has failed in tackling the growing insecurity in… Read more »
Covid-19 Worsening Insecurity in Africa - UN
The United Nations has said that the security challenges in West Africa and the Sahel, occasioned by violent attacks by militant groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) are worsened by the coronavirus pandemic. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, said that attacks by Boko Haram and ISWAP within the Lake Chad general area and the Sahel in March 2020, resulted in significant losses to the defence and security forces of Nigeria, Chad and Niger Republic. Measures and restrictions put in place to contain the spread of the disease have limited human movement and opportunities to work, straining the ability to afford food and other basic needs.
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The United Nations says that more children have been trafficked, forced to work in gold mines and to fight as soldiers in Mali this year as conflict worsened and Covid-19 shut ... Read more »
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"A preventable tragedy is looming" in the Sahel region, says the top humanitarian official at the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock. He pointed the converging ... Read more »
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Armed men, suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, killed more than 40 farmers in Borno State on Saturday according to local residents.The killings appeared to ... Read more »
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The 2020 Global Terrorism Index has reported that Nigeria is still the third most impacted country in the world when it comes to militant attacks. However, the report did have some ... Read more »
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The Nigeria Governors' Forum views the attack as "obnoxious, wicked, unwarranted, and morally reprehensible". Borno state governor Babagana Zulum has asked for more young people to ... Read more »
