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A man receives a sleeping mat as part of a distribution of food and supplies that MCC sponsored for about 4,000 people displaced by a conflict in central Nigeria. MCC assists displaced people in central Nigeria
Tim Shenk MCC helped to provide food and other aid to about 4,000 people who were recently displaced by a conflict in central Nigeria's Plateau State. Violence broke out on April 11 in the farming town of Namu because of a land rights dispute between two ethnic groups, according to news reports. Several days of fighting caused an estimated 200 deaths and displaced several thousand people. About 4,000 people took shelter at a military barracks in the city of Shendam, where MCC workers discovered that they had no food several days later. MCC provided $13,600 Cdn., or $11,900 U.S., to purchase food for one week, as well as eating utensils, sleeping mats, cooking pots and painkillers. The distribution was carried out by the Nigerian Red Cross Society and the Emergency Preparedness Response Team, a network of Nigerian organizations that MCC helped form in 2005 to mediate conflicts in Plateau State. "We are hoping that the crisis will settle within the week and people will begin moving back to their homes or what is left of them," reported Joanna Bergen, an MCC country representative in Nigeria. |
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