United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi expressed shock today at yesterday’s bombing of a site for internally displaced people in north-east Nigeria that left dozens of people dead. A United Nations Humanitarian Air Service helicopter airlifted eight injured Nigeria Red Cross workers.
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This morning the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations briefed the Security Council on Darfur. Although there been a decrease in armed conflict in Darfur, he said, civilians had remained exposed to significant sources of insecurity such as intercommunal conflict and criminality.
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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: