By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - School teachers in the Lake Chad region where Boko Haram is waging an insurgency are being trained to identify and respond to security threats to protect children from the Islamist group, the United Nations said on Thursday. Schools are parti...

12 April 2017 – The use of children, particularly girls, by the Boko Haram terrorist group in violent attacks in the Lake Chad region has seen an “alarming” surge in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported. According to the UNICEF report, Silent Shame: Bringing out the voic...

In Nigeria, aid agencies seek to kindle hope for life after Boko Haram MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost two years after Boko Haram militants attacked his hometown in northeast Nigeria, killed his neighbors and forced his family to flee to safety, Ibrahim Usman faces a dile...

President Muhammadu Buhari asked parliament on Sunday to extend his medical leave, his office said in a statement, deepening suspicions among many Nigerians that his health is worse than officials are admitting publicly. The statement did not say how much extra time Buhari was seeking off. He had...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...