The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed to Senegal as part of Nigerian contingent of Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention in Gambia (ECOMIG) – a standby force tasked by ECOWAS Heads of State to enforce the December 1, 2016 election mandate in the The Gambia. The NAF toda...

BOKO HARAM has used more female suicide-bombers than any other terrorist group in history. Of the 434 bombers the group deployed between April 2011 and June 2017, 244 have been definitely identified as female. More may have been. The Tamil Tigers, the previous holders of the gruesome record, used 44...

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been terrorizing parts of northeast Nigeria for years. The violence is pushing the region to the brink of a hunger crisis.

Au Nigeria, Amnesty International fait part de son inquiétude au sujet des procès grandeur nature qui ont débuté ce lundi. Quatre procès engagés contre 2 000 présumés jihadistes de Boko Haram. Les audiences se tiennent à huis clos dans quatre tribunaux civils délocalisés dans un centre de détention ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The vast majority of almost 2 million Nigerians driven from their homes by the conflict with Boko Haram cannot return because of a lack of security, an aid agency said on Wednesday.

The American University of Nigeria (AUN) in collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has trained 1,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), especially women, in different skills. The women were trained in groundnut oil and cake production, popcorn production, pou...

ABUJA, Nigeria - The UNHCR Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Antonio Jose Canhandula, conducted a fact-finding mission to Benue state, North Central and Cross River state, South-South Nigeria from 8 to 10th January, 2018 where he interacted with Cameroonian refugees in the Abande, Kwande Local G...

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...

For Immediate Release Saturday, July 8, 2017 USAID Press Office +1.202.712.4320 | Email: press@usaid.gov | Twitter: @USAID Today, the United States announced nearly $639 million in additional humanitarian assistance to the millions of people affected by food insecurity and violence in South Suda...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian armed forces in the northeast of the country. Some of them have already lived for years in temporary homes. Others are on the move from one place to another. All of them recount a life full of har...