In an exclusive interview, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama spoke to DW about migration, corruption, and the current tension in the Niger Delta. Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama is scheduled to meet with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeyer on Wednesday. Among t...

Justice Micah Wrights of ECOWAS Community Court on Wednesday in Abuja, dismissed the suit against the Federal Government over the violation of the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The plaintiff, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Projects (SERAP), in suit no ECW/CCJ/APP/31/15,...

PARIS, June 14 (Reuters) - President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger called on Tuesday for France to strengthen military operations against West African Islamist militants, including Boko Haram after its fighters carried out a deadly attack on a Nigerien town. France currently has some 3,500 troops s...

Terrorist group, Boko Haram, has set up an FM station broadcasting on 96.8 frequency, the Hausa service of Voice of America has said. According to the report, villagers living in the village of Tolkomari in the far north state of Cameroon said they tune to the station which spread Boko Haram's pr...

DAKAR, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food aid will be doubled for people uprooted by Boko Haram violence in southeast Niger after recent attacks forced 50,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Boko Haram earlier this month seized ...

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Abuja, June 15, 2016 (NAN) The Acting Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugee, Migrants, and Internally Displaced persons (NCFRMI), has said that the Federal Government will support every effort targeted at re-integrating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Mrs Ma...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 6/15/2016 - 16:31 GMT Boko Haram killed four people and abducted four women from a village in northeast Nigeria, the military said on Wednesday, dismissing the Islamists as weakened and increasingly desperate. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman told AFP the attac...

Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 6/15/2016 - 12:01 GMT Nearly 700 people, most of them children, are receiving treatment in hospital in northeast Nigeria for severe malnutrition after being rescued from Boko Haram, the Borno state government said. Sixty-one "critically malnourished" young ...

Des hommes en armes ont attaqué jeudi un camp de déplacés dans le sud-est du Niger, quelques heures après le passage d’une importante délégation ministérielle. Le camp de Nguagam est situé à mi-chemin entre Diffa et Bosso. Cette dernière avait été la cible d’une violente attaque de Boko Haram qui a...

The Borno State Government said on Saturday that it had resorted to distributing food items to households to tackle alleged poor feeding at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Mallam Satome Ahmed , Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) who disclosed this in ...