The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said the Northeast t is not yet conducive for the return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The UNHCR Regional Representative for West Africa, Ms Liz Ahua, said this at the opening ceremony of the Lake Chad Regional Protection Dialogue in Abuja.
Ahua said the persistent threat from Boko Haram, presence of mines and absence of basic services constitute acute humanitarian and protection risks for the affected population.
She said the situation was not only peculiar to Nigerians but all countries bordering the Lake Chad Basin.
She explained that the regional meeting was meant to adopt a workable blueprint on the regional protection of the Lake Chad basin and safe return of refugees and IDPs.
“This meeting is meant to exploit how we can better ensure IDPs physical safety, access to asylum and protection, including protection from forced expulsions.
“Many refugees and IDPs have experienced high levels of violence, many suffer from trauma, and are in need of support in practical and systemic ways can we help them,” the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted the UNHCR official as saying at the forum.
She said over 2.7million people in the region had been displaced, while 20million people had been negatively impacted by the insurgency in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad.
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