More than 20,000 persons have been missing as a result of Boko Haram conflict in the northeast, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.
The ICRC Maiduguri field officer, Usman Kunduli Bukar, disclosed this during a two-day workshop on “Humanitarian Reporting Workshop in Maiduguri,” on Tuesday.
The 12-year-old insurgency has claimed more than 300,000 persons and millions have been uprooted from their ancestral homes.
“The northeast conflict is more gruesome than what we think. Thousands have lost their fathers, sons and children; many families are looking for their relations,” he said.
“Women are going through a lot of issues of depression due to missing their children,” he added.
Bukar said ICRC “registered more than 20,000 cases of missing persons in the northeast, they have either been killed or missing, we have registered 4,000 cases of such in Bama local government area Borno state alone.”
