Nigeria, June 28 -- Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) has said.

The report said insurgency directly resulted to the death of 35,000 people in three states in the region, while an estimated 314,000 people died "from indirect causes" in the entire North-east region.

Since 2009, the North-east has been the theatre of the violent campaigns of the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, its breakaway group, the Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP), and counter-insurgency forces.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (O...