More than 2,000 schools were shut, while hundreds had been attacked, looted or set ablaze, Unicef said.
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Since starting to wage war on the Nigerian government in 2009, Boko Haram – whose name means “Western education is forbidden” – has targeted schools, students and teachers.
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“Here in lake of region of Chad, the World Food Programme is scaling up its operations, as more and more displaced people are arriving, people fleeing the violence on the islands near the border with Nigeria”, said Alexis Masciarelli, WFP spokesman.
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Boko Haram is usually based mostly in northeast Nigeria still the militant group has this yr intensified its marketing campaign, establishing camps & launching assaults in neighboring Cameroon, Chad & Niger in its drive to carve out an Islamist caliphate.
In northeastern Nigeria, UNICEF has supported 170,000 children back into education in the safer areas of the three states most affected by the conflict, where the majority of schools have been able to re-open.
Fontaine said the situation has resulted in the fear of being abducted, abused and recruited into the sect, adding that parents have been discouraged from sending their wards to schools.
About 600 teachers have been killed during Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency, it said. Temporary learning spaces are being set up, but security remains a challenge, the agency said.
This was contained in a statement issued by UNICEF’ West and Central Africa regional director Manuel Fontaine.
“It is important to provide education for these vulnerable children – the future generation of our country – who would be targets for Boko Haram if they were not in school”, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Maiduguri.
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This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration was taking urgent and appropriate actions to restore order, due process and probity to the procurement processes of the nation’s Armed Forces.
