{"id":413116,"date":"2017-08-31T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/31\/uk-cuts-aid-to-nigeria-in-half\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:08:55","slug":"uk-cuts-aid-to-nigeria-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/31\/uk-cuts-aid-to-nigeria-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cuts aid to Nigeria in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Britain is to halve the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to Nigeria over the next few years, says the international development minister.<\/p>\n<p>The aid worth \u00a3200m ($258m) over the next fours years is a 50% drop from the \u00a3100m it spent in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The money is aimed at victims of attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants in north-eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.5 million people are on the brink of famine in the area, aid agencies say.<\/p>\n<p>International Development Minister Priti Patel said the Nigerian authorities needed to do more to defeat the extremists and to \u201csecure the safety and well being of its own people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She also said other donors should increase their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>On being asked if she was comfortable with a substantial cut in Britain\u2019s humanitarian aid, Ms Patel replied that she did not see it as a cut because she had just announced more money for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job isn\u2019t just to give aid and money\u2026 but also to get others to contribute as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that other countries and development partners needed to share the aid burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an international crisis\u2026 the international development community must come together. That\u2019s other donor countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North-east Nigeria has been devastated by Boko Haram since 2009, with more than 20,000 people killed and 8.5 million people in need of urgent support, according to the UK Department for International Development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is to halve the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to Nigeria over the next few years, says the international development minister. The aid worth \u00a3200m ($258m) over the next fours years is a 50% drop from the \u00a3100m it spent in the past 12 months. The money is aimed at victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK cuts aid to Nigeria in half - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/31\/uk-cuts-aid-to-nigeria-in-half\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"UK cuts aid to Nigeria in half - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Britain is to halve the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to Nigeria over the next few years, says the international development minister. 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