A Historical Appraisal of the Role of United Nations in Addressing Humanitarian Crisis in North East Nigeria (2010 – 2018)

Abstract

The paper analyse and evaluate the role of United Nations in Addressing Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East Nigeria. As contended, the UN has been supporting Nigeria’s government effort in providing relief assistance toward solving the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram insurgency. However, the region has been suffering from hunger, lack of adequate medical assistance in the Internally Displaced Person’s (IDPs) camps, refugee debacle, food insecurity, spread of various diseases to mention but a few. This paper is anchored on the state fragility theory because there is a significant relationship between humanitarian crisis in the North-East Nigeria and the failure of the state to meet some basic demands of citizens. The paper established that Boko Haram insurgency is largely responsible for humanitarian crisis in the North-East Nigeria. Furthermore, the paper identified a number of issues such as mismanagement of funds, lack of effective management of internally displaced persons and unnecessary bureaucracy as contributing to the worsening situation in the North-East. The paper adopted historical, thus primary and secondary sources were used to gathered and analysed data. Thus, books, chapters in books, peerreview journals, newspapers, internet sources were all used in the course of developing the work.