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    Home»News»African News»More people fleeing as deadly attacks reported in Nigeria's Lake Chad region

    More people fleeing as deadly attacks reported in Nigeria's Lake Chad region

    African News By UN NewsMar 12, 2014No Comments2 Mins Read
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    11 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it is increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of continuing violence in north-eastern Nigeria and stressed the importance of protecting civilians.

    Newly arrived refugees interviewed by the staff of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Niger have spoken of atrocities on the islands and shores of Lake Chad in north-east Nigeria’s Borno state.

    “One woman described corpses strewn through houses and floating in the water. She said people feared staying even to bury their dead or find missing relatives. Others recounted fleeing a village shooting incident and said women and children were being kidnapped and taken away by unidentified assailants,” UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva.

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    The latest attacks are reported to have begun in mid-February and were continuing five days ago, he said, adding that, in all, some 2,000 people have crossed into south-east Niger’s Diffa region over the past four weeks. In addition to the attacks on Lake Chad, some of the new arrivals have come from areas near Borno’s state capital, Maiduguri, that have been affected by fighting.

    “UNHCR reiterates to all parties to the conflict in north-eastern Nigeria the vital importance of protecting civilians from harm,” Mr. Edwards stressed.

    The insurgency in the three north-eastern Nigerian states of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno has displaced more than 470,000 people inside Nigeria. Refugees arriving in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger are in addition to this.

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    Since Nigeria declared a state of emergency in the three states in May 2013, more than 57,000 people have fled to Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Some 17,000 of these are registered Nigerian refugees. The rest are nationals of the surrounding countries who had been living in Nigeria for decades.

    Niger has received the majority – some 40,000 concentrated in the Diffa region, a desert in the country’s eastern edge.

    Source: UN News Centre – Africa

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