about fifteen billion naira. The UK Ambassador on General Assembly Matters to the UnitedNations, UN James Roscoe stated this at a UN Security Council meeting on peaceand security in West Africa, in New York. Roscoe said the UK is providing additional twenty-eightmillion dollars about eight-point-five billion naira infunding for projects to “reduce young people’s vulnerability torecruitment by violent extremist groups” in Borno state. According to the envoy, the gestures are part of the UK’s contributions, working with its partners in WestAfrica, to support domestic efforts at preventing extremism andinter-communal violence in the region. Earlier at a briefing, Special Representative and Head of theUN Office for West Africa and the Sahel, MohamedChambas, said the region had been “shaken by unprecedented violence” in recentmonths.