U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed

Reuters Saturday, 3 March 2018 ()
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly kidnapped.
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