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UNHCR steps up support amidst large-scale returns to Northeast Nigeria
news UNHCR, 01 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is stepping up its response as large numbers of refugees return from Cameroon to north-eastern Nigeria. More than 12,000 refugees returned in the month of May, with 1,800 returning in just one day early last week. Refugees are arriving to difficult conditions in the tow... -
Thousands of Nigeria's returning refugees need humanitarian assistance – UN refugee agency
news UN, 02 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )2 June 2017 – As thousands of refugees return from Cameroon to north-eastern Nigeria, straining the few existing services and creating a new emergency, the United Nations refugee agency is stepping up its response to improve conditions -
UPDATE 2-Boko Haram launches major attack on northeast Nigerian city
news REUTERS, 07 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, June 7 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital in a year and a half. -
Nigeria to probe soldiers' alleged misconduct at refugee camp
news REUTERS, 06 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's army is investigating alleged misconduct by soldiers providing security at a camp for people who fled an Islamist insurgency, a military spokesman said on Tuesday -
Le défi de l'accueil des réfugiés centrafricains au Cameroun
news VOAAFRIQUE, 06 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Les autorités camerounaises font face à une crise d'infrastructures de base dans 16 communes abritant les camps des réfugiés centrafricains. -
Funds shortage forces U.N. to cut emergency food aid for 400,000 in Nigeria
news REUTERS, 07 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of 400,000 people in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria due to funding shortfalls, a top U.N. official said on Wednesday. -
Ethnic tensions bubble in Nigeria in echo of Biafra civil war
news REUTERS, 07 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )A northern Nigerian state's governor on Wednesday ordered the arrest of activists for demanding the eviction of eastern Igbo people, amid rising tensions between ethnic groups that hark back to the country's Biafra civil war. -
Boko Haram make biggest raid on Nigeria's Maiduguri in 18 months
news REUTERS, 08 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Boko Haram insurgents launched their biggest attack on the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri in 18 months on Wednesday night, the eve of a visit by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to war refugees sheltering there. -
Tuface pledges to donate proceeds to UNHCR for IDPs, refugees
news Vanguard Nigeria, 08 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Music icon, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as Tuface, has pledged to donate the proceeds from his song to the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Nigeria, to assist Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). -
Nigerian Refugees: UNHCR, Humanitarian Actors Predict Growing Risk Of Human Rights Abuses,Disease Outbreaks
news KapitalFM, 09 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Nigerian refugees, who recently returned from Cameroon, are now facing enormous challenges ,which include difficult living conditions due to lack of food, shelter, water and sanitation, as well as limited and overstretched health facilities. This is particularly the case in Pulka and other areas of...