Some 16,000 Nigerians have reportedly crossed into Cameroon’s Far North region, fleeing ongoing insurgent attacks on border villages...

After fleeing violence in north-east Nigeria, Moussa and Zara meet in exile and end up committing to each other.

The kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok in Nigeria by Boko Haram caught the attention of the world. Some of the girls who escaped are being taught at a school run by the American University of Nigeria. The university now finds itself helping to feed 270,000 displaced people, pushed out of their ...

Le HCR travaille avec les autorités camerounaises pour transférer les réfugiés des environs du camp de Minawao vers d’autres sites. Quelques 16 000 réfugiés nigérians ont récemment rejoint la région de l'Extrême-Nord au Cameroun après avoir fui des attaques au nord-est du Nigéria entre les forces...

More than 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes in northern Nigeria, the vast majority as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency, according to the latest figures from the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA). The displaced are mainly from Borno (62 percent), Adamawa (18 pe...

YAOUNDE— Cameroon has launched an $8 million emergency plan to construct 200 classrooms, dormitories and latrines for 70,000 students displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. The schools will be constructed in safer localities in Cameroon, away from the volatile northern region near the Nigerian bo...

Civil society groups have expressed optimism that the Nigerian government would soon adopt the draft policy on Internally Displaced Persons in the country. At the South West consultation on the draft national IDP policy in Lagos, Wednesday, the groups identified election violence, insecurity, and...

The Borno Government on Saturday advised Internally Displaced Persons whose communities had been reclaimed by the military to exercise restraint in rushing back home. This is in view of the fear of dangerous reptiles and landmines planted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in such communities. ...

An attempt by a lone suicide bomber, Saturday, to destroy the Beneisheikh bridge on the highway linking Maiduguri to Damaturu has failed, claiming the life of the bomber. The bridge is the only bridge along the highway considered to be the safest route from the Borno State capital to Damaturu, th...

The casualty figure from the serial bomb blasts in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital at the weekend, rose from 60 to 100, yesterday. Residents, security operatives and doctors confirmed to Nigerian Pilot that more bodies were recovered from scenes of the explosion. The death toll was initially pu...