The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday it had reunited more than 200 children with their parents after being separated by the Boko Haram insurgency.
The Head of Operations, Adamawa and Taraba office of the agency, Sa’ad Bello, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the successful reunification was conducted with the collaboration of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) under Restoring Family Link Programme.
The children, mostly between the ages of five and 12, are from Bama and Baga in Borno State.
There are still about 165 unaccompanied children in four designated camps in Adamawa State, he said.
The official said some families from Bama visited some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Yola where they identified their children.
He said after intensive investigation by appropriate authorities concerned, the children were handed over to their parents.
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