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Remarks by Chargé d’Affaires Kathleen FitzGibbon at WRAIR Air Force PPE Handover

Good morning.  I am thrilled to be here with you all on this Air Force base, the site of a newly certified treatment center to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak here in Nigeria.  As we all know, COVID-19 has impacted the entire world.  There have been nearly 47 million cases globally, and Nigeria still remains ...
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By | 5 November, 2020 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Speeches | Tags: , ,

With support from USAID, widowed and vulnerable women from Nigeria’s Borno State are being trained to produce more than 50,000 protective masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the coming weeks. Photo: Bassey Aniebiet Akpanudoh/NLCB

USAID Trains War Widows in Northeast Nigeria to Produce Facemasks That Protect Against COVID-19

Maiduguri, Nigeria – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Office of Transition Initiatives is supporting training for women, mostly widowed or otherwise made vulnerable by the Boko Haram insurgency, to produce protective facemasks to help protect the population from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria’s conflict-affected Northeast. After an initial round of trainings ...
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By | 5 May, 2020 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: , , , , , ,

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