LAGOS, NIGERIA — The United Nations is suspending aid to dangerous areas of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, where it says a half million people are starving, after Boko Haram ambushed a humanitarian convoy. “This was not only an attack on humanitarian workers. It is an attack on the people who most need the assistance and aid that these workers were bringing,” Porter said. “Only the UN missions outside the capital have been suspended,” UNICEF spokeswoman Doune Porter told The Associated Press on Friday. “The normal assistance we have been giving will continue in Maiduguri,” the Borno state capital of 1 million people that hosts another million refugees from Nigeria’s 7-year-old Islamic insurgency.

Source: thestar July 29, 2016 13:52 UTC