The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Borno State, on Sunday, said it has uncovered a "spiritual book" suspected to be used by Boko Haram to hypnotise their victims. The state commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, disclosed this in Maiduguri, in an interview with the New...

The Borno State Government said on Saturday that it had resorted to distributing food items to households to tackle alleged poor feeding at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Mallam Satome Ahmed , Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) who disclosed this in ...

Despite the threat of armed groups, poverty and a lack of opportunities, young people in Niger refuse to give up. In mid-June, the bodies of 34 migrants were found in the Niger desert, 20 of them children. They had been abandoned by smugglers. On June 3, Boko Haram carried out an attack in the...

More than 60 stars, including Malian singer Rokia Traoré and Senegalese musician Babaa Maal have joined refugees, faith leaders and UNHCR to back a petition highlighting the plight of forcibly displaced people. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today launched a major campaign that asks the world to s...

Plus de 60 stars, y compris la chanteuse malienne Rokia Traoré et le musicien sénégalais Babaa Maal, appellent à signer une pétition en faveur des personnes déplacées. Le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, a lancé aujourd’hui une campagne demandant au grand public à travers le mon...

Des hommes en armes ont attaqué jeudi un camp de déplacés dans le sud-est du Niger, quelques heures après le passage d’une importante délégation ministérielle. Le camp de Nguagam est situé à mi-chemin entre Diffa et Bosso. Cette dernière avait été la cible d’une violente attaque de Boko Haram qui a...

By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI—THERE are fears of possible outbreak of epidemic as over 28,000 families of 2,211 household of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from surrounding villages of Bama and Banki border town with Cameroon Republic defecate openly due to lack of toilet facilities at the General ...

The terrorist group, Boko Haram has launched a radio station, according to a report by the Hausa service of the Voice of America, (VoA). The jihadists are said to be using an FM frequency to broadcast their messages in Tolkomari, a northern village in Cameroon, on the border with Nigeria. The ter...

Toute cette semaine, RFI propose une série de reportages dans l'Etat de Benue, le Nigeria rural, au centre-est du pays. L’objectif est de comprendre les raisons des crises chroniques et souvent meurtrières entre les bergers peuls et les paysans tivs. A Buruku, mais aussi ailleurs dans l’Etat de B...

Des sages-femmes parties de Ndjamena, la capitale, séjournent dans la région du lac Tchad. Elles réalisent dans leurs cliniques mobiles des consultations spéciales pour les femmes et les enfants du camp de Dar es Salam aux portes de Baga Sola, ville tchadienne située près de la frontière avec le Nig...