The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said some 50,000 people were forced to flee a town in Niger after a devastating attack from armed group Boko Haram, Al-Jazeera reported.
Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman, told reporters in Geneva that tens of thousands of people were forced to flee the town of Bosso, in south-eastern Niger, after the armed group attacked a military outpost based over the weekend.