January 8, 2015

At least 128 Children roam in Adamawa displaced persons' Camps

Not fewer than 128 children fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency, North-East Nigeria have been found without guardians at camps set up for various Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Adamawa State, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
 
The Head of NEMA Special Ad-Hoc Committee on IDPs in Adamawa State, Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, who made the disclosure while speaking with journalists, said only seven of the children have been reunited with their parents. While is unknown if the children's parents have been killed in terrorists’ invasions
 
“So far, we have reunited seven children with their relations with the help of the International Committee for Red Cross and Red Crescent," Bello reportedly said.
 

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