The U.S. government have announced an additional $102 million in humanitarian aid to Nigeria.
The announcement was made by the U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington on Friday at the ‘National Conversation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus.’
According to him, the fund will be administered primarily through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) offices of Food for Peace (FFP) and Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), as well as the U.S. State Department’s Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration.
“These funds for Nigeria represent the vast majority of the U.S. government’s new $112 million infusions for the Lake Chad region.”
“Our hope is that this new investment in humanitarian assistance will combine with the efforts of your government and people to move Nigeria forward on a path to peace and prosperity,” the ambassador said.
The fund is to provide life-saving aid to hundreds of thousands of people, including emergency food assistance, nutrition treatment, shelter, health services, safe drinking water, services for survivors of sexual violence and support to children who have been separated from their families due to one reason or another, the U.S. Ambassador added.
