{"id":14769,"date":"2019-03-18T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14769"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:10:14","slug":"fire-kills-at-least-8-destroys-homes-in-northeast-nigeria-camp-for-idps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14769","title":{"rendered":"Fire kills at least 8, destroys homes in northeast Nigeria camp for IDPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ABUJA, March 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A fire killed at least eight people and left 15,000 others without shelter after raging through a northeast Nigerian camp for people displaced by a war against Boko Haram insurgents, aid group Norwegian Refugee Council said.<br><br>Northeast Nigeria is ground zero for one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises, sparked by a now decade-long conflict with Boko Haram and its splinter group Islamic State West Africa Province.<br><br>Roughly 2 million people have been displaced by the war, often living in squalid camps with little food, shelter or medicine.<br><br>\u201cThe source of the fire was a spark from a cooking stove, used by a child preparing her food,\u201d Norwegian Refugee Council said on Twitter, describing the disaster in the town of Gajiram in Borno, the state worst hit by the conflict.<br><br>\u201cImmediately, the family shelter, made of dry vegetation, was ablaze&#8230;The survivors of the fire are now left without shelters &amp; clean water to drink &amp; cook. They are dispersed, desperately seeking shelters under trees or under the direct sunlight.\u201d<br><br>Some 6,000 children and more than 4,000 pregnant and nursing women were among those affected, it added.<br><br>In recent weeks, Nigerian and Chadian forces have launched an offensive against Daesh\u2019s Lake Chad stronghold after being on the back for much of 2018 and early 2019.<br><br>The Nigerian military has said it has killed dozens of insurgent fighters. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, March 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A fire killed at least eight people and left 15,000 others without shelter after raging through a northeast Nigerian camp for people displaced by a war against Boko Haram insurgents, aid group Norwegian Refugee Council said. Northeast Nigeria is ground zero for one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises, sparked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}