The European Union decided, on Friday 24 January, to mobilise €26.5 million in humanitarian aid to help the millions of people affected by the conflict in Nigeria’s Lake Chad region. Currently visiting the country, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, announced this from the north-east of Nigeria, a region where violence by armed groups escalated in 2019.
The EU aid, channelled through the Commission's humanitarian partner organisations on the ground, will...