Monday, August 22, 2016 Cases in Nigeria: What’s the Outlook? Interview with Michel Zaffran, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative What are the implications of finding polio in Nigeria 2 years after the last case? The implications are that we were right to be cautious about this ...

Abuja, 18 August 2016 - The Honourable Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has declared the recent polio outbreak as a national public health emergency following the report of two (2) wild polio virus (WPV) cases in Gwoza and Jere local government areas (LGAs) of Borno state last week after ...

50,000 children could die from malnutrition unless they receive immediate help, the UN has warned. Aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is growing, with more than two million people displaced by the war with Boko Haram. The BBC's Martin Patience reports from the town o...

Le milliardaire nigérian Aliko Dangote est préoccupé par la crise sécuritaire dans le nord de son pays. En compagnie du chanteur de rock irlandais Bono, il a visité un camp de réfugiés où vivent des milliers de personnes, à Maiduguri, dans la partie septentrionale du Nigeria, ce dimanche. Selon M....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—In a forest of thorn trees somewhere far outside this city, the Boko Haram insurgency ran a boot camp for about 100 boys. Children as young as 5 years old learned to handle assault rifles and march through the woods in flip-flops. Their teacher was only 15. “I was terrified if ...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Nigeria, has distributed 3,000 non-food relief item (NFI) kits to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Banki, Borno, to alleviate their suffering, an official has said. The IOM’s Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Ms Enira Krdzalic, said in a statement...

Bono and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, visited a camp of 2.3 million displaced people in Borno State, in Nigeria’s northeast region over the weekend. The governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, accompanied Dangote and the Irish rock star on the trip. On Monday, Bono and Dangote met wi...

The world may have finally woken up to the child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria, but the latest data shows, if anything, a deepening crisis. Levels of Global Acute Malnutrition recorded in July and August were well over the 15 percent threshold deemed “critical”, and, in some cases, hig...

Niamey, Niger | AFP | Saturday 9/3/2016 - 21:27 GMT Five villagers were killed and two others wounded in a Boko Haram attack in eastern Niger, the first in three months carried out there by the jihadist group, a local governor said Saturday. Governor of the Diffa border region, Dan Dano Mahama...

Two years ago, the Cameroonian government declared war on Boko Haram. Despite some progress, the group’s violent impact is still seen and felt deeply in the remote north of the country. n March 2016, Crisis Group Analyst Hans De Marie Heungoup travelled for four weeks into an insecure area only f...