The military offensive against Boko Haram has pushed nearly 40,000 refugees into Niger Republic, a United Nations agency said.
This is driving a strain into food supplies in the drought-prone country.
The United Nations estimated in June that there were 6,000 refugees from Nigeria but the figure has soared as the military stepped up attacks on Boko Haram militants.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest monthly report that of a total 37,332 refugees, nearly 29,000 are officially Niger nationals and the rest are Nigerian.
"These figures, three times above the level the humanitarian workers were planning for, give an indication of the difficulties of developing a humanitarian response."
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I know they'll be history someday. I'm very sure of that