For many women uprooted by Boko Haram, it is the first time they have visited a health facility, or heard about birth control By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nestled among dozens of pregnant women huddled together on benches in the clinic's antenata...

In this unique Nigerian school, children born to Boko Haram learn together with those orphaned by the militant group By Kieran Guilbert and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Boko Haram militants stormed his home in northeast Nigeria three yea...

Abuja, 26 January 2017 – In a major vaccination campaign concluding this week, 4.7 million children are being vaccinated in response to a measles outbreak in northeast Nigeria. The campaign is covering the three states most affected by the Boko Haram conflict – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – where insecu...

The World Health Organisation and the United Nations have embarked on a campaign to vaccinate 4.7 million children against measles in Nigerian states affected by conflict. Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Chikwe Ihekweazu explains the importance of the massive campai...

The devastation caused by Boko Haram and the military forces fighting them has plunged the people of far eastern Niger into a serious food crisis and has slashed their incomes to a tenth of what they were before, Oxfam warned today. In Diffa, the far eastern region of Niger, the Government has cl...

Dakar, Wednesday 01 February - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, strongly condemns yesterday’s deadly attack against a United Nations Technical Monitoring Team that was conducting a f...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres released US$100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to sustain aid operations in nine neglected emergencies. CERF’s largest allocation of the year will reach more than 6 million people in crises where levels of vulnerability ar...

More than 30,000 children have lost or been separated from their parents during insurgency which has left nearly two million uprooted after fleeing Boko Haram By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Running his fingers over the wide scars on his knee and th...

After a sleepless night because of the rumours that the fighting was getting nearer the town of Damaturu, Aisha is plaiting the hair of her first client of the day. But it's not long before the sound of bombs becomes louder. The gunfire is also getting closer. Eventually it gets too close and it's t...

Nigeria - IOM has provided mattresses, blankets, water purification tablets, mosquito nets and other essential items to 12,500 displaced families (70,073 individuals) and others affected by Boko Haram violence in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states, north-eastern Nigeria, over the last six weeks. Many f...