Humanitarian Operations In Rann, Borno, Still Suspended – UN

The UN said on Saturday that suspension of hum
anitarian operations in Rann, Borno, on March 2 was still in force.

The suspension was announced as the UN withdrew its workers from the community after a March 1 attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists who killed eight persons, including three aid workers, and abducted a nurse.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) said Nigeria’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Edward Kallon, was meeting with high-level Government officials in Abuja in Maiduguri.It also said that Kallon would travel to Maiduguri next week for assessment of the situation in the North-East.

The UN had said that it would conduct an assessment of Rann in the wake of the March 1 attack and evacuation of humanitarian officials.“At present, there is no aid worker presence in Rann as the 52 aid workers who were there were evacuated last Friday.

“Across north-east Nigeria, there are approximately 3,000 aid workers operating in 26 locations, compared to only a few hundred in early 2016,” the UN said. It explained that the operational capacity of humanitarian partners in the three most affected states by the Boko Haram insurgency – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – continued to expand.

The UN said that the humanitarian partners in the three states consisted of 73 national and international partners.

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