{"id":74647,"date":"2021-04-17T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=74647"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:15:24","slug":"tens-of-thousands-flee-attacks-on-northeast-nigerian-town-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/74647-tens-of-thousands-flee-attacks-on-northeast-nigerian-town-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands flee attacks on northeast Nigerian town: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f1\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f0-\u06f3\u06f1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75005\" 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other nearby towns while others have crossed the border into Niger\u2019s Diffa region, itself vulnerable to violence from armed groups.<br>\u201cDue to insecurity, however, humanitarian access is increasingly challenging in many parts of Nigeria\u2019s Borno State, including for UNHCR staff, who were forced to temporarily relocate out of Damasak in the past seven days,\u201d Baloch said.<br>Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told the same briefing that aid operations had been temporarily suspended in the area since Sunday because of the insecurity.<br>\u201cThe situation on the ground is extremely critical and if this continues it will be impossible, maybe for longer periods of time, for us to deliver aid to those who desperately need it,\u201d he said.<br>ISWAP, which split from the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2016, has become a dominant threat in Nigeria, attacking soldiers and bases while killing and kidnapping 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