UN TO GIVE #17,000 TO EACH HOUSEHOLD DISPLACED BY BOKO HARAM

500,000 households displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency will benefit N17,000 each from the World Food Programme in 2016.
The World Food Programme is a project of the United Nations that addresses hunger and promotes food security.
The Chairman of Borno State Emergency Agency, Ahmed Satomi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, yesterday in Maiduguri said 35,000 households had benefitted already.
He said that the agency planned to reach out to 1.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in other communities.

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