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Speaker warns 17-year insurgency has left millions displaced and pushed food insecurity higher in Nigeria
Summary
An unidentified speaker said Nigeria’s Northeast has endured about 17 years of insurgency, naming Boko Haram and citing multiple, sometimes inconsistent, estimates that millions are displaced and that up to 36 million people could face food insecurity; casualty and displacement figures were presented as reported by the speaker and not independently verified.
Speaker 1, an unidentified speaker, described a long-running security crisis in Nigeria’s Northeast and said it has produced large-scale displacement, damage to schools and health facilities, and rising food insecurity.
The speaker said the region is "entering into the 17 years of insurgency," naming Boko Haram as one of the armed groups involved. "Over 2,000,000 people are still displaced," the speaker said, and later gave a separate figure, "The displaced people, I talk about 3,500,000,"…
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