Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria's north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say. The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they took place a day after the military announced it had agreed a ceasefire ...

Cinq personnes ont péri dans l’explosion d’une gare routière de l’Etat de Bauchi, dans le nord du Nigeria. Nouveau drame dans le nord du Nigeria. Au moins cinq personnes ont péri dans l’explosion, mercredi, dans une gare routière de l’Etat de Bauchi. « Il y a eu une énorme explosion, mercredi 22 ...

VOA News October 21, 2014 11:53 AM Talks to free more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Nigerian militants last April did not begin as projected on Tuesday, although there are signs the militants and Nigeria's government are preparing for the talks in Chad. A prominent Nigerian newspaper, Thi...

By Ola' Audu Despite claims of a ceasefire between the Nigerian government and extremist sect, Boko Haram, soldiers on Sunday night shot dead 25 members of the sect during an attack on Damboa town of Borno state. This was disclosed by security officials. The attack on Damboa crystallised the ...

L'armée et la présidence nigérianes ont annoncé vendredi qu'un cessez-le feu avait été conclu avec Boko Haram. Mais l'incertitude demeure sur la libération des 219 adolescentes enlevées par le groupe islamiste dans le nord-est du pays, mi-avril. L'armée et la présidence nigérianes ont déclaré, ve...

As insurgent groups intensify their campaign of rebellion and terror in Nigeria’s north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, Nigerian refugees have been fleeing across the border into northern Cameroon, Niger and Chad. In the last two months, the number of new arrivals has increased significan...

Some thousand people fleeing attacks by Boko Haram on the Nigerian city of Kolikolia, in Borno State, arrived last Thursday on the uninhabited island of Choua in Lake Chad. The island lies in Chadian waters about four kilometres from where the borders of Chad, Nigeria and Niger intersect. Refugee...

UN humanitarian agencies in Chad have assisted nearly 1,000 people who fled violence in north-eastern Nigeria in the past week. The Government of Chad contacted the UN on Friday 1 August with reports that hundreds of people crossed from Nigeria into Chad’s largely inaccessible Lake Chad border re...

GBITI, Cameroon, August 12 (UNHCR) – Motivated by a sense of solidarity, Bouba Mairama has been a mother figure to many of the thousands of refugees who fled Central African Republic earlier this year and crossed the border to the small town of Gbiti. She provided clothes to replace their rags; she ...

GENEVA, July 22 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency and its partners today appealed for greater donor support to cope with the continuing outflow and deteriorating condition of refugees from the Central African Republic. On Tuesday UNHCR together with 16 other humanitarian agencies revised the Region...