Nigerian troops forced the entire population of a town of 10,000 people in north...
FILE PHOTO: Nigerian military secure an area where a man was killed by suspected militants near Maiduguri, Nigeria, February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo
A U.N. statement said soldiers moved the people of Jakana to a camp in the city of Maiduguri about 40 km away, some arriving with “nothing, not even shoes on their feet”. The military and government returned nearly 5,000 Jakana residents to the town on Thursday, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said on its official Twitter account.The northeast of Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest energy producer, is the main battleground in its decade-long fight against Boko Haram and fellow Islamist insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province.
“The entire town of Jakana was emptied, and people were forced to move to Maiduguri with very little time to collect personal belongings,” Edward Kallon, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria, said in the statement.
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