Doctors Without Borders reported that a fifth of children suffered from malnutrition at a camp for people fleeing Boko Haram. The militant group has killed over 20,000 people and displaced millions in the region. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday warned of a "catastrophic humanitarian ...

UNHCR is working with Chad and partners to ensure the children of Chadian émigrés fleeing war in neighbouring countries finally receive ID cards to start over. GORÉ, Chad – One day three years ago, during a break at the farm where she worked, Samira Hassan took a walk to the top of a nearby hill ...

By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Jan 27 (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls almost two years ago, police and residents ...

Twin suicide attacks have been reported in Cameroon’s northern town, Kerawa. Two suicide bombers believed to have targeted a school in the region lost their lives in the terror attack. There’s however no claim of responsibility by any group. According to a source, the public school had been...

Farmers can now apply for organic certification for their produce at township agriculture departments, according to the Hlegu Township Vegetable and Fruit Research and Development Centre (VFRDC). “The country already has organic growers. We will issue organic certificates to local farmers. So, lo...

Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Monday 2/22/2016 - 16:50 GMT Nearly 6,500 children were found to be severely malnourished last year at camps set up for people made homeless by Boko Haram insurgents, health officials in northeast Nigeria said on Monday. "We recorded about 6,444 severe cases of malnu...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the increasing number of violent attacks on displaced civilians by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The 2014 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results released by the Ministry of Education showed very encouraging performance by refugee candidates in Kakuma with schools registering above average mean score of 259 out of 500. Of the 1,467 candidates who sat the exam, 1300(340 female, 960...

New York, 24 September 2014 - Thank you for your commitment to Somalia, and thank you for your participation discussing the situation in Somalia. I am glad to see so many partners, including the leaders from Ethiopia, Italy and the United Kingdom who jointly suggested this meeting. I am delight...

Leaders from ceasefire signatory and non-signatory ethnic armed groups are meeting in Chiang Mai this week to discuss cooperation on the peace process. The meeting involves representatives from both the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) – a body under the auspices of the non-signatory co...