The head of UNHCR’s Executive Committee, Ambassador Hisham Badr of Egypt, will be visiting refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya starting this Sunday week to see for himself the situation there amid the ongoing crisis in the Horn of Africa. <p>The visit follows High Commissioner António Guterres’ m...

How the tattered remnants of an Islamist sect transformed into a relentless terrorist army that Nigeria cannot defeat In February 2009, I was at a motor park in Maraba, a satellite of the Nigerian capital Abuja, looking for motorcyclists wearing dried vegetables on their heads. The Nigerian Polic...

Villagers in the Northern District of Karen State on the Thai-Burma border gathered along the Salween River for the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Dams. On March 14, the Karen River Network organized event to call for “No Dams” near the Ei Tu Hta internally displaced peoples’ ...

By ADAM NOSSITER DAKAR, Senegal — Refugees in northeast Nigeria fleeing an attack by the Islamist group Boko Haram have spoken of dozens of civilian deaths and scores of houses destroyed in an already hard-hit fishing village near Lake Chad. Local officials and witnesses who have fled to the r...

Three policemen have been killed in an attack on Niger security forces near the border with Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali. Niger's Ministry of Defense made the statement on public television Thursday. Colonel Ledru Moustapha said in the statement the attack was launched by assailants who arrived...

La 10e édition du Festival international de la mode en Afrique, Fima, prévue du 25 au 29 novembre à Niamey, a été reportée mardi sine die. Motif : les craintes d'une attaque jihadiste dans la capitale nigérienne. « Le gouvernement du Niger a décidé de reporter cette 10e édition du Fima [Festival ...