UNHCR to Raise $840m for Nigeria's IDPs

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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is to raise about $840 million for Internally Displaced Persons  (IDPs) in Nigeria in collaboration with other humanitarian agencies.

The UN agency revealed this at the second regional protection dialogue on the Lake Chad Basin, in Abuja on Monday.

According to the Regional Representative, UNHCR, West Africa/Regional Refugee Coordinator Nigerian Siuation,  Liz kpam Ahua, "there are two responses we have for the crisis in the Lake Chad Basin.

"We have the humanitarian crisis response strategy for Nigeria, dealing with the internally displaced persons. Tomorrow (today) we will be launching an appeal for about $840 million for the IDPs in Nigeria while we have a refugee response plan which covers refugees in Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria.

"That appeal, we are talking about $135 million. These two appeals, seek to reach the victims in the four countries affected."
She noted that the dialogue seeks to remind the government in the Lake Chad Basin of the principles of humanitarian action.
Lamenting the situation in Lake Chad Basin, Ahua stated: "Two-and-half years after the 1st Regional Protection Dialogue, it is disheartening to report that the Lake Chad Basin continues to face a protection crisis here in Nigeria and across the neighboring countries."

She said: "While we have acknowledged the deliberate and  concerted efforts of the four countries of the area to bring the Boko Haram crisis to an end and, while recognising the successes achieved by military operations that have led to the recovery of local government areas in north-eastern Nigeria that had been hitherto occupied by Boko Haram, we are dismayed to witness new displacement of people in Borno State and the plight of thousands more into Cameroon and Chad.

"All together, close to 320,000 persons have been displaced anew in the last three months of 2018 and this very month of January.

"Today, two-and-half years after, we; all of us gathered in this meeting, as a community, to share the pains being inflicted to over 7.5 million women, girls, boys, men, young and old, in the Lake Chad Basin. 
"Whether, internally displaced, of which there are over 2.5 million, or in exile, of which there are close to 250,000 now or indirectly impacted, we feel the pain, the deprivation and the violence of those that are bearing the brunt of the Boko Haram crisis," Ahua lamented. 

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