An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the conflict to breaking point, as the UN warned against forcing people back to northeast Nigeria. Obinna Orjingene is a doctor for UNICEF in the town of Banki, near the border with Cameroon,...

BANKI, Nigeria — The soldiers arrived in the middle of the night, tearing through the village of Nigerian refugees, barging into stick huts where families slept in knots on the floor. For years, those refugees had been on the run from Boko Haram insurgents, finally escaping across a dried riverbed...

DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr...

I am extremely worried that large numbers of Nigerian refugees hosted in Cameroon are again returning to northeast Nigeria - into a situation dangerously unprepared to receive them. Three weeks ago UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned about the situation in the Nigerian border town of Banki where tho...

LAGOS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria will unveil a National Integrated framework for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) by September, Yemi Osinbajo, the country's acting president said Tuesday. The acting president made this known at a ceremony to commemorate the 2017 World Ref...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday donated sanitation equipment to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Damaturu, Yobe, to enhance their living condition. Mr Gabriel Idoko, the Head, UNHCR in Yobe, presented the materials to the displaced persons at Kukareta ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has appealed to stakeholders to support the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe with opportunities to rebuild their lives. The Head, UNHCR in Yobe Mr. Gabriel Idoko, who made this appeal on Tuesday at the commemoration of t...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday appealed to stakeholders to support the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe with education, safe living condition and economic rehabilitation. Mr Gabriel Idoko, Head UNHCR in the state, made the appeal at the comme...

His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon. But 38-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an ambush, a...

By Ebuka Onyeji and Agency Report A former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, says the destructive activities of Boko Haram contributed to the estimated 11 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, particularly in the north-east. The Boko Haram insurgency has caused about 100,000 deaths since ...