The humanitarian crisis in the troubled North-East may worsen as the territories believed to be controlled by Boko Haram and its affiliate, Islamic State of West Africa, won’t receive any form of aid
from any agency relying on the United States Government for financial support,The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Agnes Callamard, said in a September 2 report obtained bythat almost all United Nations agencies except UNICEF had agreed to stop giving aid to people in such areas.
“Only UNICEF has refused to sign the clause with the result that their warehouses will run out of ready-to-use food by October and their health facilities will not be able to operate as of November. About 100,000 people have already been cut off from access to aid workers following government forces’ decision to retreat to larger bases. The reports added that the figure could rise to 121,000.last week claiming Boko Haram had returned stronger and with more sophisticated weapons including drones following the decision of the military to retreat to super camps.
The Islamist militants were reported to have torched a clinic in Magumeri, ransacked government buildings and looted shops before returning to another town they had raided that night called Gubio, residents said. “We strongly believe the days of BH moving freely and passing in between static defensive locations are over,” Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, who commands the anti-insurgency operation, told reporters last month.
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