HIGHLIGHTS
May/June Boko Haram attacks displace as many as 76,000 people in Niger’s Diffa Region
UN reports critical levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in Borno State’s Bama IDP camp
CERF contributes an additional $18.5 million in humanitarian assistance for response efforts in Chad and Nigeria
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
Boko Haram-related violence continues to displace households in the Lake Chad Basin. A series of Boko Haram attacks in Diffa Region’s Bosso Department displaced an estimated 50,000‒76,000 people between late May and early June, the UN reports. Although the security situation remains volatile, response actors, including USAID and State/PRM partners, are conducting assessments and providing emergency assistance to affected households in accessible areas of Diffa.
Relief organizations are identifying urgent humanitarian needs in areas of northeastern Nigeria as security conditions gradually improve. An estimated 25,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering at an IDP camp in Borno’s Bama local government area (LGA) require urgent food and nutrition assistance, humanitarian organizations report. Relief actors are coordinating to respond to food, health, and nutrition needs in Bama.
From June 27‒29, the UN Central Emergency Respond Fund (CERF) allocated an additional $18.5 million for humanitarian interventions in Chad’s Lac Region and northeastern Nigeria. Of the total, $13 million will provide emergency food assistance and health, livelihoods, nutrition, and protection support to approximately 250,000 people in newly accessible areas of northeastern Nigeria. In addition, nearly $5.5 million will support the provision of emergency relief commodities and health, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) assistance to conflictaffected people in Lac.
USAID recently provided $2.5 million to assist Boko Haram-affected households in Cameroon and Chad. Of the total, USAID/FFP contributed $2 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to meet urgent food needs among vulnerable households in Chad’s Lac Region. In addition, USAID/OFDA provided $500,000 to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to support response efforts in Cameroon’s Far North Region. The new funding brings total U.S. Government (USG) support for the Lake Chad Basin response in FY 2016 to more than $85 million.