{"id":637,"date":"2017-12-18T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=637"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:24:27","slug":"attack-wfp-convoy-leaves-four-dead-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attack-wfp-convoy-leaves-four-dead-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Attack on WFP convoy leaves four dead in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four people were killed when a United Nations World Food Programme (<span class=\"caps\">WFP<\/span>) aid convoy was ambushed in northeast Nigeria, a\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">WFP<\/span>\u00a0spokeswoman said, in the latest attack in the region as the conflict with Boko Haram nears its ninth year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWFP can confirm that a convoy escorted by the Nigerian military including\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">WFP<\/span>-hired trucks was the subject of an attack by armed groups 35 km southwest of Ngala in Borno State on Saturday,\u201d she said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour people, including the driver of a\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">WFP<\/span>-hired truck and a driver\u2019s assistant, were killed in the incident,\u201d the statement said, adding that \u201cWFP is working with the authorities to determine the whereabouts of the trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trucks were carrying food aid to displaced civilians in Nigeria. Some 8.5 million people in the conflict region are in need of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on aid workers are relatively rare in the conflict with the Islamist insurgency, compared with assaults on the military and civilians in Nigeria\u2019s northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Since Boko Haram began an insurgency in 2009, more than 20,000 people have been killed and some 2.6 million displaced.<\/p>\n<p>A military spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the United Nations suspended aid deliveries in Nigeria\u2019s northeastern state of Borno, the epicentre of the conflict, after a humanitarian convoy was attacked, leaving two aid workers injured.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Nigerian government approved the release of $1 billion from the country\u2019s excess oil account to the government to help fight the Boko Haram insurgency, despite a two-year narrative that Boko Haram has been all but defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Nigeria replaced the military commander of the campaign against Boko Haram after half a year in the post. Military sources told Reuters that the decision was arrived at after a series of \u201cembarrassing\u201d attacks by the Islamists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed when a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) aid convoy was ambushed in northeast Nigeria, a\u00a0WFP\u00a0spokeswoman said, in the latest attack in the region as the conflict with Boko Haram nears its ninth year. \u201cWFP can confirm that a convoy escorted by the Nigerian military including\u00a0WFP-hired trucks was the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Attack on WFP convoy leaves four dead in Nigeria - 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