Boko Haram violence in Nigeria displaces 6,000 in 10 days.
This report became available at the UN Headquarters in New York on January 24, 2014, Friday.
The agency noted that its team in Cameroon’s far North region had spoken with refugees from the area around Banki, a town just across the border in Nigeria’s Borno State.
According to UNHCR, in Niger, 1,500 new refugees, mostly women and children, arrived in the Diffa region, south-east of the country.
It added that the refugees said that they fled because of Jan. 16 attack of a mosque in the village of Gashagar, just across the border.
Seven people were reportedly killed during the attack, and seven cars and 60 shops were burned.
It would be recalled that Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States have been under state-of-emergency since May 2013 as the army fights Boko Haram insurgents.
(NAN)
Source: Legit.ng
