Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Friday 6/10/2016 - 09:50 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR At least 10 people are "starving to death" every day in a camp in northeast Nigeria for people displaced by Boko Haram violence, highlighting warnings about a food crisis in the Lake Chad region. A civilian vigilante and a...

တၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤနဲၣ်ကျဲလၢ တၢ်ကစးထီၣ်မၤအီၤဖဲ ကီၢ်စဲၣ်ဒီးကီၢ်ခီတနီၤနီၤ, ကမ့ၢ်ခီၣ်ခါလၢခံတခါ လၢတၢ်ကထုးထီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်လီၤခိၣ်ဂီၤ လၢလီမ့ၣ်ကျဲ လၢခိၣ်ဂီၤစးခိအလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.ပဒိၣ်ပှၤဘၣ်မူ ဘၣ်ဒါစံး၀ဲလီၤ. အူမၠံၣ်ကၠဲၤ, လၢအမ့ၢ်ထိဘိနဲၢ်ရွၣ်လၢ ပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ, တၢ် နုာ်လီၤဟးထီၣ်ထံလီၢ်ကီၢ်ပူၤ ဒီးပှၤနီၢ်ဂံၢ်စရီကိတိာ်, စံးဘၣ် The Myanma...

Bangui, Central African Republic | AFP | Thursday 12/17/2015 - 21:15 GMT Nearly 90 percent of voters in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui voted for changes to the constitution in a referendum aimed at ending years of sectarian strife, though turnout was low at 30 percent, partial resu...

AMMAN — Jordan hosts the third largest number of refugees in the world, and the largest refugee community globally when compared with the population, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Saturday. Ensour noted that the direct cost of hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees on the Kingdom...

Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started, not long after the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked her town in Nigeria. Her husband was nowhere to be found, and so she pulled her four-year-old son onto her back and grabbed her two little girls by the hand. The 30-ye...

On Tuesday 9 February, two Nigerian girls entered a camp for displaced people in the country's north-east. Minutes later they detonated their explosive vests, killing 58 people. A third girl refused to take part in the suicide mission for Islamist militant group Boko Haram. This is her story. Hau...

9 March 2017 – Highlighting the multifaceted nature of the crisis in Africa's Lake Chad Basin, the deputy United Nations chief underlined the need for a holistic approach that includes responding to the Boko Haram as well as closing the gap between humanitarian assistance and development interventio...

Boko Haram militants attacked troops from Niger on an island base in Lake Chad, the government said Saturday, in a raid believed to have taken a heavy toll on the army. "At dawn on April 25, fighters from the terrorist group Boko Haram riding motorised canoes attacked the island of Karamga, a pos...

Abuja - Over 25 health workers have been killed by members of the Boko Haram sect since the beginning of this year, Executive Director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammad, has stated, Punch reports. Muhammad said that the death of health workers in the course of ca...

Female suicide bombers in Nigeria are now carrying babies to avoid detection in their attacks, authorities warn. An attack in the town of Madagali on 13 January saw two women detonate their devices, killing themselves, two babies, and four others. They had passed a vigilante checkpoint, mistaken f...