MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

The planned 2015 general elections will not be postponed, the Union Election Commission chairman U Tin Aye told news media on October 20. U Tin Aye said that according to the 2008 Constitution, parliament has a term of five years from the day of its first session. The first session of the curre...

MAIDUGURI/YOLA, 17 November 2015 (IRIN) - Memuna* was four months pregnant when Boko Haram attacked her village on the outskirts of Bama, some 60 kilometres southeast of the Borno State capital of Maiduguri. Her husband was killed during the September 2014 raid. She was captured and thrown into a...

* Pope Francis due to visit first conflict zone on Sunday * Trip coincides with a months-long surge in violence * Both Christians and Muslims welcoming the pope By Joe Bavier BANGUI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A 300-metre stretch of no-man's-land marks the entrance to PK5, an enclave in Bangui w...

Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres on refugee crisis in Europe Press Releases, 4 September 2015 The European Union is preparing key emergency meetings to take decisions in its response to the present refugee and migration crisis. The situation requires a massive com...