An estimated N7,900,300,000 billion is currently required
to save lives and protect those affected by the insurgency attacks by Boko
Haram across the four West African countries, reports ITRealms.
The United Nations’
Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the
Sahel, Mr. Toby Lanzer made this disclosure, Friday to ITRealms, saying that the humanitarian teams within the Economic for West
Africa Community (ECOWAS) region needs $397 million, about N7,900,300,000 to
save lives and protect those affected by Boko Haram insurgency in four
countries.
Mr. Lanzer listed
these countries to include Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, all members of
ECOWAS.
He also disclosed that
the required amount is expected to take care of the Humanitarian Response Plans
and Regional Refugee Response Plans.
Citing for instance,
that in Chad, two response plans have been launched since this year to address
successive waves of displacement in April and September, that is, worth
$26million about N5,174,000,000 and $11.5million, about N2,288,500,000
respectively.
Mr. Lanzer revealing
this via his Twitter handle @tobylanzer, lamented “Humanitarian
teams need $397 million 2 save lives & protect those affected by #BokoHaram in 4 countries.”
ITRealms
recalls that the Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition
in Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to
the south.
Although ITRealms
gathered, the Sahel is widely French-speaking, Islamic and takes its
name ("shore") from Arabic. But the region, one of the poorest and
most environmentally damaged places on earth, has deep troubles.
Sahel, Arabic Sahil, according to semiarid region of western and north-central Africa
extending from Senegal
eastward to the Sudan,
thereby forming a transitional zone between the arid Sahara
desert to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south; thus Sahel
stretches from the Atlantic
Ocean eastward through northern Senegal, southern Mauritania,
the great bend of the Niger
River in Mali,
Burkina
Faso formerly known as Upper Volta, southern Niger,
northeastern Nigeria,
south-central Chad,
and into the Sudan.
Noteworthy is that in the 1970s, the
Sahel captured international attention when drought and famine killed
nearly 200,000 people.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) +United Nations
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