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America’s UN ambassador Samantha Power in Cameroon
The United States will give $40 million in humanitarian assistance to countries bordering Lake Chad fightingIslamist militant group Boko Haram, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
The money was to help about seven million people affected by the insurgent group that has killed around 15,000 people. It takes total U.S. aid to the sub-region since 2014 to $237 million, she said.
Power was in the capital of Cameroon and met President Paul Biya and attended a ceremony to burn 2,000 tusks in a bid to end elephant poaching. The trip includes visits to Chad and Nigeria.
Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad are contributing forces to fight the group. Power has been scheduled to visit the region’s Multinational Joint Task Force, which is staffed with troops from the three nations as well as Niger and Benin.
The United States has sent troops and drones and offered to send a special operations mission to the fight against Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
Power also described meeting refugees and called for financial support from the international community to aid the development of areas battered by Boko Haram.
On Monday, a vehicle in her motorcade that was carrying United Nations and Cameroonian officials struck a young boy. Medics in the convoy treated him but he died of his injuries.
Power said she learned of the death with “great sorrow”. She said she met with the boy’s family to “offer our profound condolences and our grief and heartbreak”.
