Speaking to journalists in Geneva, WFP spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs said the families arrived on 20 November, forced to flee fresh violence in Nabek and Yabroud. The WFP is working closely with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to ensure that individuals have quick access either to food parcels or electr...

Residents in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa state fled their villages to the state capital this week after a string of deadly attacks by Boko Haram militants that marked the latest in a campaign of violence that has left thousands of people dead. Between Friday and Monday, the armed insurgents hi...

Some thousand people fleeing attacks by Boko Haram on the Nigerian city of Kolikolia, in Borno State, arrived last Thursday on the uninhabited island of Choua in Lake Chad. The island lies in Chadian waters about four kilometres from where the borders of Chad, Nigeria and Niger intersect. Refugee...

UN humanitarian agencies in Chad have assisted nearly 1,000 people who fled violence in north-eastern Nigeria in the past week. The Government of Chad contacted the UN on Friday 1 August with reports that hundreds of people crossed from Nigeria into Chad’s largely inaccessible Lake Chad border re...

Last month alone, more than 2,000 men, women and children from northern Mali have sought refuge in Mauritania from ongoing banditry and interethnic violence. MBERA CAMP, Mauritania – Tuareg mother Fatimata and her cattle herder family hid out in the desert of northern Mali after violence between ...