L'Organisation sous régionale a ébauché un plan visant à permettre aux milliers de personnes sans papiers et sans nationalité reconnue de pouvoir exister officiellement. Selon un spécialiste, en Afrique de l'Ouest, l'apatridie, due à une législation restrictive en matière de transmission de nationa...

La communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté officiellement le mardi 9 mai, lors d’une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, en Gambie, un plan d’élimination du phénomène de privation de nationalité, appelé apatride. « L’Afrique de l’Ouest se pose en leader de la...

SC/12819 15 MAY 2017 SECURITY COUNCIL 7938TH MEETING (AM) Words, Laws, Resolutions Will Mean Nothing if Violations Go Unpunished in Practice, Deputy Secretary-General Stresses Shame and stigma were integral to the logic of using sexual violence as a tactic of war, torture or terrorism, the ...

The United Nations has appointed a new leader of the organisation that mobilises humanitarian aid during emergencies. As head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Sir Mark Lowcock will take on a dual role - Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emer...

by Maggie Dougherty Northeast Nigeria isn’t known for being easy. It’s a complex environment: hot, dry and prone to droughts. Infrastructure is weak. Roads, hospitals, water systems and electricity simply don’t function throughout much of the state. The government health systems struggle to provi...

Five million people are hit by the humanitarian fallout of the Boko Haram insurgency. Beyond ending the war, this briefing, the last of four examining famine threats in Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia, urges donors to fund their UN aid pledges in full and the Nigerian government to step up r...

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...

Violence in the northeast has caused massive displacement and at the same time restricted movement: it has disrupted food supplies, seriously hindered access to basic services and limited agricultural activities. As of January 2017, it is estimated that 14 million people are in need of humanitarian ...