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2.2 Million North-East residents Are Displaced
The National Emergency Management Agency has said that a total of 2,200,357 Internally Displaced Persons amounting to 452,363 displaced households are now in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. The agency stressed that the Boko Haram insurgency, communal clashes and natural disasters were the causes of the displacements. NEMA revealed this in its 2021 Annual Report,…
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Infographics: Fire Outbreaks In Nigeria’s Northern IDP Camps
Incidences of fire outbreaks have become a recurring phenomenon in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) facilities in Borno state, Nigeria. In 2019 alone, three fire outbreaks were recorded between February 7th to April 28th. In 2021, three more outbreaks were recorded, each one causing a death toll of more than 2 people. Scaling Fire Outbreaks In…