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 UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock (2nd r) and UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner (r) with the head of the Nigeria State Emergency Management Agency (middle), speaking with a group of farmers from the border town of Banki in Borno state, Nigeria
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Nigeria: Top UN officials say more support needed to ease humanitarian crisis and rebuild lives in conflict-ravaged north-east

The top United Nations relief and development officials on Saturday called for national and international partners to step up support for humanitarian efforts in north-eastern Nigeria and help millions of people rebuild their lives in the region that has been ravaged by Boko Haram’s near decade-long insurgency.