Nigerian Military Raids United Nations Camp for Unclear Reason<br />"I am extremely concerned that these actions could be detrimental to the critical work<br />that is being carried out every day to support the most vulnerable in the region, and I call upon the government of Nigeria to provide clarification." On Friday afternoon, the Nigerian military released a statement saying that the raid had no specific target.<br />Nigeria has said repeatedly that it has defeated Boko Haram, a group of insurgents<br />that has carried out kidnappings, bombings and murders throughout the northeast portion of Nigeria, as well as in areas across the borders of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.<br />In January, the military pursuing Boko Haram mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the village<br />of Rann, killing at least 90 people, according to a report from Doctors Without Borders.<br />Soldiers have been raiding various areas inside and outside Maiduguri to search for bomb-making materials<br />and insurgents and, acting on a tip, raided the area of the United Nations camp and 30 houses nearby, according to the military statement.<br />Edward Kallon said that The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s northeast is one of the most severe in the world today,<br />About 5 a.m. on Friday, soldiers entered a tent camp housing United Nations workers in Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Islamist militancy,<br />and searched it for about three hours, a statement from the United Nations said.
