United Nations suspends aid deliveries in Nigeria after Unicef convoy attack
The United Nations has temporarily suspended aid deliveries in Borno State after a humanitarian convoy was attacked, the UN children’s agency Unicef said on Thursday.
Unicef said in a statement that unknown assailants attacked the convoy on Thursday as it returned to Maiduguri from delivering aid in Bama, injuring a Unicef employee and an International Organization for Migration contractor.
"The United Nations has temporarily suspended humanitarian assistance missions pending review of the security situation," it said.
Nearly a quarter of a million children in Borno suffer from life-threatening malnourishment and around one in five will die if they do not receive treatment, Unicef said earlier this month
Médecins Sans Frontières said on Wednesday that severely malnourished children were dying in large numbers in north-east Nigeria where food supplies are close to running out.
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