DAKAR, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food aid will be doubled for people uprooted by Boko Haram violence in southeast Niger after recent attacks forced 50,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Boko Haram earlier this month seized ...

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Abuja, June 15, 2016 (NAN) The Acting Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugee, Migrants, and Internally Displaced persons (NCFRMI), has said that the Federal Government will support every effort targeted at re-integrating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Mrs Ma...

In response to continued low oil prices, the Nigerian Central Bank floated its currency Monday and the naira subsequently lost over a third of its value. Some are praising the move as positive for Nigerians. Following the lead of other oil-producing countries like Venezuela and Angola, Nigeria...

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...

(CNN) —A frail woman hesitates for a moment before handing over her sick child to a nurse. "This child cannot stand," says another medic as the severely malnourished boy is carried to the intensive care unit at the Gwange therapeutic feeding center on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Ni...

By Joe Bavier DIFFA, Niger (Reuters) - "You'll all be able to go home soon. Boko Haram is nearly finished," Niger's Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum told a crowd of refugees seated quietly on dusty, sun-baked flats. His words of optimism were belied by the dozens-strong security detail require...

Les Nations unies disent être inquiétées par les violences "inimaginables", commises par Boko Haram au Nigeria. Les actions du groupe djihadiste ont contraint des milliers de personnes à fuir leur lieu d'habitation, ce qui les oblige à avoir besoin d'une aide humanitaire, a déclaré, devant le conse...

L'état d'urgence en vigueur au Mali, et qui devait expirer dimanche, a été prorogé de huit mois, jusqu'au 29 mars 2017, par l'Assemblée nationale réunie samedi en session extraordinaire, a appris l'AFP de sources officielles. Le projet de loi prorogeant cette mesure, qui avait été adopté vendredi...

Au moins cinq soldats maliens sont portés disparus depuis une attaque dans la région de Mopti, dans le centre du Mali, a déclaré à l’AFP une source militaire malienne qui l’a attribuée au groupe jihadiste malien Ansar Dine. Cette attaque a visé « une de nos positions lundi entre les localités de ...