DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr...

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA/WASHINGNTON — Three years ago, at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, Nigerian soldiers stopped all fishing activities in the country's section of Lake Chad. Militants had infiltrated the ranks of the fishermen, the army said, and were using the guise to fund arms purchases a...

LAKE CHAD BASIN Violent conflict, caused by the militant extremist group Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria, has been raging since 2009. The violence has since spread to the neighbouring border regions of Cameroon, Niger and Chad, directly affecting around 17 million people. In addition, this area...

ICRC joins UK MPs in call for urgent action With over 11 million people now affected by the ongoing crisis in four countries of the Lake Chad basin (Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon), the ICRC addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) in the Houses of Parliament this week. ...

Messages clés Dans le nord-est du Nigeria, l’amélioration continue des conditions sécuritaires favorise le retour croissant de personnes déplacées et de réfugiés ainsi que l’amélioration des flux marchands. L’aide humanitaire a aussi connu une augmentation de volume, mais demeure insuffisante pou...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Denied an education by the Islamist insurgency of militant group Boko Haram, tens of thousands of children across the Lake Chad region are instead tuning into lessons broadcast over the radio, the United Nations children's agency (U...

Political Will Needed in Fighting Boko Haram, Delegates Stress, as Bolivia, Russian Federation Warn against Interventionism, ‘Outside Meddling’ Despite laudable progress towards democratic consolidation, the security situation in West Africa and the Sahel remained a concern, the Secretary-General’s...

Dala Abba, has just received a kit of core relief items from UNHCR and its partner, Action Initiative for Peace and Development (AIPD) for his family of seven. He is barely four days old in Banki and hoping to continue to his return trip to Pulka in Gwoza Local Government Authority (LGA), his area o...

Avec son pouce, Mani a barré sa gorge d’un trait sans équivoque. Six fois, en silence, elle a répété le geste pour indiquer le nombre des hommes tués sous ses yeux par la lame des émissaires de Boko Haram. Comme tout son village situé sur une île du lac Tchad à la frontière du Nigeria, Mani a été év...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Nigerian refugees uprooted by the jihadist group Boko Haram have returned home from Cameroon in recent weeks, piling pressure on aid agencies and communities in Nigeria's hungry northeast, United Nations officials said on Tuesday.