A report by the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) has warned that internally displaced children in Nigeria are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the world.
The report released in Abuja on Tuesday, had looked at the risks and challenges facing internally displaced children and recommended that urgent actions are needed to protect them.
It noted that 60 per cent of the 1.9 million people displaced from the homes in the Northeast are children, with one in four under the age of five.
Globally, according to UNICEF, an estimated 19 million children have been displaced in their countries due to conflict and violence in 2019 – some of them for years.
The report, titled: Lost at Home, looks at the risks and challenges internally displaced children face, and the urgent actions needed to protect them.