by JAMES ABRAHAM Over 2,000 internally displaced persons, IDPs, taking refuge in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday received free medical services. The free medical treatment was organised by Tina Bawa Ministries, TBM, a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, in partnership with Stephanos Fou...

2.000 soldats de l'armée tchadienne sont en route mercredi pour le Niger, cible vendredi d'une attaque massive des islamistes nigérians de Boko Haram à Bosso (sud-est). Le président nigérien Mahamadou Issoufou a effectué une visite mardi à N'Djamena dans un contexte marqué par la recrudescence de...

L'année 2016 sera une année charnière en Afrique avec pas moins de 16 élections présidentielles, à commencer par un second tour très ouvert dimanche en Centrafrique, afin de sortir ce pays très pauvre de trois ans de violences intercommunautaires. Tour d'horizon des principaux scrutins: Centra...

After his father, a welder from Bama, died in a camp for internally displaced people in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, 17-year-old Dauda began to cater for the two wives and eight other children who had survived him. Aided by the little money donated by one of the locals bringing food to ...

N'Djamena (AFP) - Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, the Chadian military said. Twelve soldiers were wounded in the attacks staged by the Islamists on Thursday and Friday near the border town of ...

Three years after the French intervention in northern Mali, thousands of refugees in neighboring Burkina Faso are still afraid to go home. Mali’s conflict may be over, but its border areas remain deeply unstable, with jihadist militant groups still believed to be operating. They fled in 2013. Tho...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Saturday 2/13/2016 - 22:48 GMT At least 30 people have been killed in fresh Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Saturday, again calling into question President Muhammadu Buhari's claim that Nigeria had largely defeated the jihadist grou...

Over 30 persons were killed when two female suicide bombers attacked an internally displaced persons camp in Borno State on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Ahmed Satomi, said. Satomi said the incident which occurred at the camp established in Dikwa, recently ...

A survey by the United Nation Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has indicated that no fewer than 32, 000 children were at risk of losing their lives as a result of inadequate nutrition in Jigawa State. This was disclosed by a UNICEF nutrition specialist, Philomena Irene, in a paper presented at a ...

A nutrition specialist with United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Mrs. Philomena Irene, has disclosed that 34,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Adamawa State. She said due to the alarming malnutrition in children of the state, the UNICEF and the state government w...