EU mulls €210m humanitarian aid for Nigeria, seven others

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The funding which will be allocated to humanitarian projects in eight beneficiary countries.

The statement noted that worsening instability and armed conflicts, together with the COVID-19 pandemic and natural hazards, were having a devastating impact in the Sahel and countries in Central Africa.

“While humanitarian aid is there to bring emergency relief, longer-lasting improvements can only be brought about through the political will of national governments and good governance.” The assistance, it said, also aimed to enhance the immediate response in terms of basic services to most vulnerable population, especially concerning healthcare for all or education for children caught up in humanitarian crises.The EU intervention also aimed to strengthen fragile communities’ preparedness for crises, such as mass displacements of people, or recurrent food or climate-related crises, the statement added.

“The COVAX Facility is supporting the delivery of 1.3 billion doses of vaccines to 92 low and middle-income countries by the end of 2021 and has recently decided that up to 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be made available for use in humanitarian contexts,” it said.The statement also recalled that in 2020, the EU supported humanitarian interventions in the region with more than 213 million euros.

 

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Soon no amount of humanitarian aid will help Nigeria. The world leaders should rise to condemn the senseless killings of Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen, bandits, boko haram and other criminal gangs with government patronage.

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