A senior official of the United Nations and its partners has confirmed they require some $200 million to carry out emergency responses to the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria's Northeast in 2016.
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Toby Lanzer, disclosed the figures on Friday at the end of a week-long visit to affected areas in Nigeria.
He said the extreme violence in the North-East of Nigeria was the most visible driver of instability and need for emergency relief across the Lake Chad Basin but abject poverty and environmental degradation were the root cause of the crisis that plagues the region.
"The political, environmental and developmental causes of the crisis must be addressed with a renewed sense of urgency," said Lanzer.
He said in Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, Gombe and Yobe States, hundreds of thousands of families had been struck by Boko Haram.
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