At least eight people have been killed after female suicide bombers attacked two camps hosting internally displaced people (IDP) in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, a civilian self-defence group said. It was the first major attack on a displaced persons camp in the city which is the birthplace of...

<i>L’économiste Gilles Olakounlé Yabi analyse et s’inquiète de l’ampleur de la présence militaire et sécuritaire franco-européenne dans l’espace sahélien.</i> De nombreuses voix africaines ont réagi aux propos du président français Emmanuel Macron tenus au terme du sommet du G20 en Allemagne. Sel...

Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are scaling up assistance in anticipation of increasing humanitarian and medical needs in hard-to-reach areas of Borno state, Nigeria. The onset of the rainy season will render some locations impossible to reach, as the countryside transforms into muddy s...

20 July 2017 – Urgent action is needed now towards the meaningful participation of women in peace processes, as well ensuring their voices are heard in all aspects of society, the United Nations deputy chief told reporters in Abuja today as part of a first-ever UN-African Union trip focused on women...

Innocent Idibia, also known as 2Baba, is visiting Borno State, to support the work of UNHCR in the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugee returnees. His visit is part of a partnership that is being built with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to...

At least eight people were killed on Monday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria. The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said the blast injured 15 others in the London Ciki area of Maiduguri, which has been at th...

Des dignitaires de l'ethnie kanourie, majoritaire au sein de Boko Haram et dans le nord-est du Nigeria, ont exhorté les djihadistes à négocier avec le gouvernement pour mettre fin à leur insurrection sanglante. Mais certains observateurs y voient surtout un appel visant à préserver des intérêts eth...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Denied an education by the Islamist insurgency of militant group Boko Haram, tens of thousands of children across the Lake Chad region are instead tuning into lessons broadcast over the radio, the United Nations children's agency (U...

Sixty-year-old Falmata Ali Tela and her family live in Fertilizer, an unfinished housing estate turned into an emergency camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Named for the shuttered fertilizer factory on site, the camp is home to over 15,000 people, many of whom are displaced by the fighting in the northe...

MAIDUGURI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of AUD$3 million (US$2.2 million) from the Government of Austral-ia that will provide food and nutritional assistance to tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria, where the Boko Haram insurgency and the curr...