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Militants Assault U.N. Humanitarian Facility In Borno State

January 22 2020

Nigeria

Unidentified assailants have attacked a United Nations humanitarian hub in Ngala in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, near the border with Cameroon, reports the U.N. News. On Saturday, militants assaulted the facility in trucks fitted with machine guns, burning a section of it along with an aid vehicle, reported Agence France-Presse.  Twenty individuals who were at the facility to receive assistance were killed, reported Reuters. Five U.N. staffers at the site escaped...

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