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Nigeria: Halt Closure of Displaced People’s Camps
Human Rights Watch
Ensure Rights, Wellbeing of Those Affected
(Abuja) – Nigeria’s Borno State government’s efforts to shut down government camps hosting thousands of displaced people by December 31, 2021 is creating risks and hardships, Human Rights Watch said today.
The authorities should suspend the camp closures, which fail to guarantee displaced people’s rights.
In August 2020, the Borno State government announced and began plans to resettle over 1.8 million displaced people from camps in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, to other communities across the state where the…
This was followed by another announcement in…