Boko Haram: Nigeria Receives $3 Million Support from Australia

In the bid to address humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad caused by the Boko Haram insurgency, Australia said it has allocated $3m to help fight hunger in the region. Also it had allotted an additional $2.4m to existing projects to combat malnutrition in Niger, adding that its total global contribution to the World Food Programme for 2015-2016 was US $43.3m.

According to the Australian High Commission, Australia’s contribution to the WFP is being used in all four countries to assist up to 400,000 of the region’s refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and the communities hosting them to gain access to life-saving food assistance.

Meanwhile, a logistics firm, Greater Washington Nigeria Limited has handed out foodstuffs to about 600 school children displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency at the  New Kuchingoro Internally Displaced Camp, Abuja.

Mrs. Fidelia Dickson who presented the items on behalf of the company said that the donation of foodstuffs would be a continuous process, adding that the donation was meant to show the company’s love to the children who were forced to relocate from their community by the Boko Haram insurgency and take dwelling in the Federal Capital Territory in order to survive.