Le reporter de guerre Xavier Muntz, dont Arte diffuse mardi soir une enquête documentaire sur les origines du groupe Boko Haram au nord-est du Nigeria, juge que "la corruption a fait le lit" de l'ultra-violence islamiste. Auteur du documentaire « Encerclés par l’Etat islamique » réalisé en Irak e...

Les musulmans entament la dernière décade du mois de ramadan, le mois du carême. A Niamey au Niger, le jeûne a été plus difficile à supporter cette année, en raison des coupures d’électricité qui durent souvent toute la journée. Les produits frais dont on a besoin en ce mois se font rares. Au qua...

Au Niger, le taux de malnutrition aiguë est désormais de 15 %. Pour les autorités sanitaires, on a donc atteint le seuil d'urgence en matière de malnutrition et cela touche tout particulièrement les régions de Zinder, Diffa, Maradi et Dosso dans le sud du pays. VIviane Van Steirteghem est la représe...

Doctors Without Borders reported that a fifth of children suffered from malnutrition at a camp for people fleeing Boko Haram. The militant group has killed over 20,000 people and displaced millions in the region. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday warned of a "catastrophic humanitarian ...

Can a new heat-resistant vaccine for the highly contagious rotavirus save the lives of children in Niger? It's estimated that 450,000 children around the world die every year from rotavirus - a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration. The disease is completely pr...

By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations has raised its 2016 humanitarian funding appeal to a record $21.6 billion from $19.7 billion, partly due to new disasters including a cyclone that battered Fiji and an earthquake that hit Ecuador, as well as the...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Having fled Boko Haram and sought refuge in an aid camp in northeastern Nigeria, Babakura Wakin watched some 30 people die, including his younger sister, as scarce food supplies ran out. But it was the fate of an elderly m...

ABUJA-There were indications yesterday that the Presidency who is understandably perturbed by the reports of malnutrition and death cases of some of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in government camps in Borno State has summoned the Governor, Alhaji Kassin Shettima for some explanations. idp...

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) yesterday said it has arrested 24 fleeing insurgents along the Cameroonian borders. A statement by the spokesman of the task force, Muhammed Dole, said the terrorists attempted to escape the combined onslaught of Nigerian troops and the MNJTF within and ...

Au moins dix personnes ont été tuées dans un attentat-suicide dans la nuit de mercredi 29 juin au jeudi 30 juin dans la province de l’Extrême-Nord, dans une localité frontalière du Nigeria, a appris l’AFP de source sécuritaire. L’attentat s’est produit à la frontière du Nigeria, dans la localité ...