ICC Note: A UN humanitarian aid convoy was ambushed by Boko Haram fighters as they were on their way back to Maiduguri after delivering aid to Bama. The convoy was being escorted by military forces but the ambush took them by surprise and resulted in the injury of five people. On account of this incident, the UN has halted aid deliveries in Borno state for the time being. This attack by Boko Haram was aimed at the civilians suffering from lack of food who are in desperate need of aid. If they do not receive aid soon, tens of thousands of children in northeast Nigeria will die of malnutrition. These people, many of them Christians, are starving due to the activity of Boko Haram in that part of the country for the past seven years.

07/30/2016, Borno, Nigeria (BBC News) – Suspected Islamist Boko Haram militants have ambushed a UN humanitarian aid convoy in north-eastern Nigeria which had a military escort, officials say.

The military said three civilians, including UN staff, and two soldiers were wounded in the attack.

It has prompted the UN to temporarily suspend aid deliveries in Borno state, where more than two million people have been displaced by the insurgency.

The UN says thousands of children are severely malnourished in the region.

Earlier this month the UN’s children agency warned that tens of thousands of children would die if treatment did not reach them soon.

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