Doctors Without Borders reported that a fifth of children suffered from malnutrition at a camp for people fleeing Boko Haram. The militant group has killed over 20,000 people and displaced millions in the region. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday warned of a "catastrophic humanitarian ...

Can a new heat-resistant vaccine for the highly contagious rotavirus save the lives of children in Niger? It's estimated that 450,000 children around the world die every year from rotavirus - a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration. The disease is completely pr...

By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations has raised its 2016 humanitarian funding appeal to a record $21.6 billion from $19.7 billion, partly due to new disasters including a cyclone that battered Fiji and an earthquake that hit Ecuador, as well as the...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Having fled Boko Haram and sought refuge in an aid camp in northeastern Nigeria, Babakura Wakin watched some 30 people die, including his younger sister, as scarce food supplies ran out. But it was the fate of an elderly m...

ABUJA-There were indications yesterday that the Presidency who is understandably perturbed by the reports of malnutrition and death cases of some of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in government camps in Borno State has summoned the Governor, Alhaji Kassin Shettima for some explanations. idp...

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) yesterday said it has arrested 24 fleeing insurgents along the Cameroonian borders. A statement by the spokesman of the task force, Muhammed Dole, said the terrorists attempted to escape the combined onslaught of Nigerian troops and the MNJTF within and ...

Au moins dix personnes ont été tuées dans un attentat-suicide dans la nuit de mercredi 29 juin au jeudi 30 juin dans la province de l’Extrême-Nord, dans une localité frontalière du Nigeria, a appris l’AFP de source sécuritaire. L’attentat s’est produit à la frontière du Nigeria, dans la localité ...

A suicide bomber belonging to Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least 11 people when he blew himself up close to a mosque in Cameroon near the Nigerian border, military sources and local officials said on Thursday. The attack occurred late on Wednesday and followed the breaking of the ...

The Nigerian Army has reopened the Maiduguri-Dikwa-Gamboru road three years after it was closed as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency. In 2013, at the peak of Boko Haram activities in Borno, the road was closed to motorists. Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno State, accompanied by the Chief of Army ...

Today the European Commission has announced over €145 million in humanitarian assistance for Africa's Sahel region in 2016 to address the basic needs of the populations, tackle malnutrition and provide food to the most vulnerable people. "Saving lives continues to be the EU's first priority in Ni...