Several officials of aid groups within the world organisation were seriously wounded.

The UN is reviewing  of the security situation in the northeast Nigeria which is a stronghold for the militants.

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The convoy came under attack traveling from Bama to Maiduguri in Borno State after delivering desperately needed humanitarian assistance.

The UN’s calling it an attack on the people who most need the assistance and aid that these workers were bringing.

UNICEF, which is one the groups assaulted works in 190 countries to promote the rights and wellbeing of every child, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children.

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Graves are being dug daily to bury victims – mostly children – of the malnutrition in the second largest centre in Borno State that’s cut off by Boko Haram militants.

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A Medicines Sans Frontiers  team accessed Bama where 24 000 people, including 15 000 children, are living in a camp located in a hospital compound.

It discovered an acute health crisis.

A fifth of the more than 800 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Sixteen severely malnourished children at immediate risk of death were taken to the MSF in-patient therapeutic feeding centre in the state capital Maiduguri.

The team counted 1 233 graves near the camp that have been dug in the past year; 480 of them are for children who had starved to death at a rate of between eight and 30 a day.

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Government forces have recaptured the northeastern city of Bama from the insurgents.

Boko Haram took Bama six months ago – boosting their six-year-old insurgency to establish a medieval-style Islamic caliphate centred on Borno state.

In recent weeks they’ve moved across the border into Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

But this has provoked counter-strikes from those countries.

Mercenaries deployed by the Nigerian authorities have also turned the tide of the conflict.

Nigerian forces’ morale has been boosted by the arrival of new equipment.

They’re fighting a terror group that grabbed territory the size of Belgium and repeatedly embarrassed President Goodluck Jonathan by showing he was powerless to stop them killing thousands and abducting 200 schoolgirls.

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