The United States government has committed about $500 million to the Boko Haram insurgency since 2009, the US Charge d’Affaires to the African Union has said.
Susan
Page was responding to a question on the financial commitment of the US
government, at the Africa Regional Media Hub telephonic media briefing on
Thursday.
“I
believe that it is upward of $485 million, just from the State Department side
in certain, you know, the way that we have to resource these things from
different elements of our foreign affairs budget,” said Ms. Page.
“But
it is close to $500 million, I believe.
“And
like I said, most of that is bilateral assistance, so it is going to various countries
in the Lake Chad Basin region to strengthen their own borders, and other
support and capacity building.”
The
US Mission to the African Union was established in 2006 as the first
non-African observer mission to the AU. Since that time, China’s PRC Mission
and the EU Mission had opened their own independent missions.
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