AUN-API organized a special pre-Easter food distribution on Thursday April 2, for nearly 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons, all women. This event, which took place at St Teresa Catholic Cathedral, Jimeta, had members of the University community as volunteers. Having lost family members, their bu...

Nigerian forces in the area had advance warning of more than four hours. As foreign experts begin to arrive the country to help the Nigerian military in the search of the over 250 girls kidnapped from the Government College, Chibok, 24 days ago, global human rights organisation, Amnesty Internati...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR), Nigeria, says it will train its staff and partners on protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Mr Hanson Tamfu, External Relations Officer, UNHCR, the commission said ...

Boko Haram militants have slit the throats of 12 people in northeast Nigeria as the army was trying to evacuate civilians from the area, a military source and a witness said on Friday. The Islamist group has been driven out of much of the huge swathe of territory they controlled at the start of the...

Nineteen people were killed in Thursday night’s attack on a Cameroonian village by Nigeria-based Boko Haram militants, a security source said in an updated toll, adding that most of the victims were beheaded. “The final toll from this attack is 19 dead, with a majority of the victims decapitated,...

Les travaux d'une rencontre de concertation, organisée par le Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés maliens en collaboration avec le ministère des affaires économiques et du développement, sur la protection et le secours des réfugiés maliens dans le camp de Mbéra au Hodh Charghi et l'appui de l'Etat ont ét...

Le camp de réfugiés maliens de M’Bera (prés de Bassiknou), qui compte actuellement une population estimée à 51.000 âmes, n’a enregistré aucun cas de mortalité maternelle et infantile au cours de l’année 2014. Ce constat a été établi par une mission inter agences des Nations Unies (ONU) composée ...

Le camp de M’Béra, installé par le HCR fin 2012, se situe à une quarantaine de kilomètres de la frontière malienne au sud-est de la Mauritanie et accueille à ce jour 52 402 réfugiés. L’ambassade de France en Mauritanie a contribué, aux côtés d’autres bailleurs bilatéraux et multilatéraux, au finance...

The atrocities of the Boko Haram attacks in the Far North Region of Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Niger as well as the precarious security situation in the Central African Republic which has led to loss of human lives, cattle, material damages and a disturbing humanitarian crisis are not only impeding...

Red Cross Society of Nigeria in collaboration with UN High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) distributed relief materials to 3,000 households of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Gombe State. Presenting the materials on Tuesday, the Head of the UNHCR Sub-Office Bauchi in charge of North East...