People fleeing Boko Haram protest over ‘starvation’ in camps amid claims of officials diverting rations, as UN warns the country is on the brink of famine Nigerian officials have been accused of stealing food from desperate people who are living in camps after fleeing the terrorist group Boko Har...

Despite recent gains against the Boko Haram in Nigeria, many of those who fled the group are still struggling. Thousands of Nigerian refugees in neighbouring countries such as Niger have been struggling for resources since fleeing attacks by the Boko Haram group. The Nigerian army has taken ba...

Maiduguri, September 15, 2016 — The Northeast of Nigeria is teetering on the brink of famine as 5 million people are in urgent need of food assistance, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said today. All actors, including the international community, the Nigerian government, and the UN should a...

"Boko Haram a égorgé neuf personnes en ma présence. C'est ce jour (de septembre 2015) que j'ai décidé de quitter mon village", témoigne, encore bouleversée, Rachel Daviguidam, une Camerounaise de 30 ans. Un an après avoir été témoin de cette atrocité, cette mère de sept enfants n'arrive pas à eff...

"Unfortunately, five civilians lost their lives at the incident and another died on the way to the hospital," he said. "Three soldiers also sustained injuries." Another attack took place on Sunday when eight people were killed outside a church by suspected Boko Haram gunmen on bicycles shortly...

Hundreds of thousands of people flee from brutality and violent attacks in northeast Nigeria. Monguno, a small town in northeast Nigeria, used to be home to 130,000 people. Over the past few months, the population has expanded to 350,000 people. The vast majority of the newly arrived are internal...

LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Nine million people urgently need aid in northeast Nigeria and nearby countries, as political violence and mass migration have caused a humanitarian emergency, a United Nations official said on Friday. Islamist group Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009, displ...

Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 9/21/2016 - 03:06 GMT by Phil HAZLEWOOD, Aminu ABUBAKAR Doctors crowded around Abdullahi. One squeezed a drip and another prepared a plastic syringe. The young boy didn't move. Only the shallow rise and fall of his chest indicated he was still alive. Flu...

The ongoing conflict with Boko Haram in West Africa has pushed the number of people facing the threat of severe hunger to more than 6 million according to the latest assessments, say 15 humanitarian organizations. The warning comes as governments and donors meet to talk about the humanitarian crisis...

Wednesday 21 September – UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova welcomed the reopening of the lyceums in the State of Borno, in northeast Nigeria, an area suffering from attacks by violent extremist armed groups. “Education and especially girls’ education is a human right, a transformative force and ...