This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 11 June 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The crisis in northeastern Nigeria has forced more than 6,000 mainly women, children and elderly people to...

GENEVA, 18 June (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday the on-going crisis in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States is causing new arrivals of refugees in Niger, and now in Cameroon. "In Cameroon, a UNHCR team visited areas along the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the Far No...

Houriatou is distraught and in tears. She has become used to loss since her native Central African Republic exploded into violence last December, but the death of her 18-month-old grandson, Djaratou, from severe malnutrition seemed particularly cruel to her, and she can't hold back. The 40-year-old ...

MBILE REFUGEE CAMP, Cameroon, May 26 (UNHCR) – Four months ago, Ramatou faced every parent's worst nightmare – the possibility of losing a child. Last week, she had a joyful reunion with two of her missing sons, aged 10 and 11, at a refugee camp in eastern Cameroon, but it was a bitter-sweet moment ...

GBITI, Cameroon, June 6 (UNHCR) – As Ibrahim plays happily in front of his mother in the Cameroonian border town of Gbiti, he looks like any other seven-year-old. But when he turns, visitors are taken aback by a deep scar in his head. The ugly machete wound will be a life-long reminder of his bru...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...