Au moins dix personnes ont été tuées depuis une semaine près de Ménaka, dans le nord du Mali, dans des violences entre Touareg. Les violences se sont produites entre le 17 février et lundi dans la localité d'Inékar, à environ 50 km de Ménaka, chef-lieu d'une des nouvelles régions du vaste Nord ma...

Ahead of a drill to teach West African police about forensics by blowing up a car filled with crash test dummies posing as suicide bombers, FBI agents met an unexpected question: why bother to investigate if the militants are already dead? The query from a Senegalese officer demonstrates the stee...

Until Boko Haram, the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was, essentially, an academic subject discussed in relation to war-torn countries of Africa where Nigeria, as part of its peace- keeping efforts, devoted enormous resources to assist. Then, they were more of refugees moving outside t...

UNHCR’s Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mrs. Angele Dikongue Atangana has said women in the Nigerian displacement crisis require more urgent and sustained attention due to their more appalling situation when compared to others. She stated this at the eve of the 2016 International Women’s Da...

Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria suffer disproportionately from different problems such as malnutrition, sickness, insecurity in the camps, lack of access to education, idles among others. The vulnerability of displaced persons is a major reason why sustainable strategies for rehabilitation m...

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was part of strategies aimed at repositioning the country’s oil and gas sector, and announced a daily crude oil production target of 2.8 million barrels per day. The ...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Sunday 3/13/2016 - 04:05 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR The annual rains are approaching in northeast Nigeria but with farmers having fled the Boko Haram conflict and their fields fallow, it's feared another planting season will come and go. "If this crop season is missed, the ...

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has condemned Thursday's terrorist attack on a mosque in Umurari village near Maiduguri Borno state in which over 22 lives were lost. He has assures that with the current renewed determination of the Nigerian security agencies, coupled with the regional and internationa...

Dans sa stratégie de protection des populations sous son mandat, le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés apporte divers appuis aux groupements dans le cadre des activités d’amélioration de leurs moyens d’existence. Désireuses de sortir de la dépendance de l’assistance humanita...

Un hôtel de Bamako abritant la mission européenne qui entraîne l'armée malienne a été visé par une attaque lundi soir. Aucune victime n'est à déplorer. L'assaut a été repoussé et un assaillant a été tué. Comment l’attaque s’est-elle déroulée ? L’attaque a eu lieu dans le quartier ACI 2000 de la ...