The humanitarian crisis in northern Nigeria has implications that Europe can ill afford to ignore, according to a top UN official. Nigeria was the third largest source of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in 2016 (pdf). Toby Lanzer, the UN assistant secretary general and lead humanitarian coord...

Destruction of homes and killings of friends and relatives have traumatised countless adults and children across northeast Nigeria By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Puffing on the cannabis joints dangling from their mouths, a group of teenage boys hurl ...

Erratic rainfall and decreased agricultural production in the Sahel in 2012 resulted in a food security and malnutrition crisis that depleted household food stocks, resources, and livelihoods assets, exacerbating preexisting levels of acute malnutrition in Niger. As of May 2014, approximately 1 mill...

ABUJA — The death toll from last week's bombing of civilian IDP camp in northeastern Nigeria has more than quadrupled from the originally reported 70 to 236 people. The Nigerian military says the bombing was an accident and is under investigation. A team of six senior officers of the Nigerian Air...

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...

Female suicide bombers in Nigeria are now carrying babies to avoid detection in their attacks, authorities warn. An attack in the town of Madagali on 13 January saw two women detonate their devices, killing themselves, two babies, and four others. They had passed a vigilante checkpoint, mistaken f...

23 January 2017 – Spotlighting the desperate plight of millions in Africa’s Lake Chad basin, the top United Nations humanitarian official for the Sahel region called today for international solidarity with the people in urgent need. “I wish I had good news, but I don’t,” Toby Lanzer, the Humanita...