The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC says Nigeria has 24,000 missing people, the largest caseload representing over half of those registered as missing in Africa.
Spokesman of the Committee Aliyu Dawobe, in a statement in Abuja, said over 44,000 people across Africa have been registered as missing, with children accounting for over 45 percent of the cases at the time they were missing.
He also noted that eighty-two per cent of the missing are registered in seven countries in Africa, namely Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Libya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon.
Dawobe said August 30th is marked as the International Day of the Disappeared and that Committee stands with the families and relatives of the missing and commemorates with them expressing its solidarity.
The Spokesman assured the victims that they are not alone and their loved ones are not forgotten. He added that the continent had seen a rise in the number of people registered with the Red Cross Committee as missing since 2020, due to armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
