The United Nations has shut down a critical air service in Nigeria’s northeast, citing severe funding shortages that threaten to deepen one of Africa’s most protracted humanitarian emergencies. The U.N. Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), run by the World Food Programme (WFP), ended its fixed-wing operations in the country last week after nearly a decade of […]
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