The Nigerian Army on Friday said it had lifted a three-month suspension of UNICEF activities in the northeast. The twist happened hours after the army accused the UN agency’s staff of sabotage Earlier on Friday, the Nigerian military said UNICEF had been training people to sabotage troops’ counter-insurgency efforts by uncovering alleged human rights abuses […]
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The Nigerian Army has said it is suspending the operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in the North-East theatre until further notice. The Theatre Command, Operation Lafiya Dole, which coordinates the Boko Haram anti-insurgency war in the North-East, stated this in a release by its spokesperson, Col Onyema Nwachukwu. It alleges that […]
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The United Nations International Children’s Fund has said that 88,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are at risk of death in the North-East. The organisation also said that about a million children between the ages of six and 59 months in the states most affected by insurgency – Borno, Adamawa and Yobe – were also […]
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that malnutrition, thirst and disease threatened lives of millions of children in Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Mr Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director for Emergency Programmes, said in a statement issued in New York that continued humanitarian action was crucial in saving children’s lives. Fontaine said the […]
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The 2017 Access Bank-UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament galloped-off on a blistering note Wednesday at the Fifth Chukker Polo and Country Club, Kaduna with three championship games in the Access Bank Cup series. Kaduna Sublime, Lagos STL Titans and Kano Susplan galloped off on impressive notes, in the opening day competitions that pitched twelve ambitious […]
Continue ReadingThree UN agencies said on Monday declared famine in parts of South Sudan. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) said no fewer than 100,000 people are facing starvation in parts of violence-plagued South Sudan. “Famine is currently affecting parts of Unity […]
Continue ReadingThe UN has negotiated the release of nearly 900 children detained by the Nigerian Army after they retook land from Boko Haram militants, a senior official said. The 876 children had been held in the barracks in Maiduguri, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Western and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, said after visiting the north-eastern city. It […]
Continue Reading(By Saharareporters) An umbilical cord care gel imported into Nigeria from India by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has rendered at least five kids blind in Yobe state. The drug, chlorhexidine, is meant for treating neonatal infection in newborns, but was allegedly wrongly packaged by the manufacturers, Galentic Pharma Ltd in India. SaharaReporters learned that […]
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