Niamey, Feb 17, 2020 – Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. The accident occurred at a culture centre in Diffa, the main town of a region of that name that abuts Nigeria and Chad. The aid being distributed had been given by Babagana Umara Zulum, the governor of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, a Nigerian official told AFP. He had come to the region to visit the camps for refugees and the displaced, and had already left the town when the stampede occurred. “They were distributing food and money — 5,000 naira ($13.75, 12.7 euros) per person,” a local resident told AFP.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 17, 2020 15:45 UTC