At least six people were killed and eight more were severely injured last Thursday in an attack in Yebi, Bosso district, Niger, where thousands of people displaced from the Lake Chad area have settled looking for refuge. According to the Nigerien authorities, the attack was carried out by the group ...

An attack by an unidentified armed group took place yesterday morning (Thursday) in the town of Ouallam, some 100 kilometres north of the capital of Niger, Niamey, in what appears to have been an attempt to free prisoners from the town’s jail. In a simultaneous attack, the National Guard post respon...

PRESS RELEASE By Nelly Muluka and Happy Tchokote, Ifrc Persistent violence in the Central African Republic has impacted negatively on health services, with vandalism and looting of health care facilities greatly affecting the ability of those living with HIV to access medication. "Several fac...

DADAAB, Kenya, November 28 (UNHCR) – Ibrahim held up an X-ray of his broken thigh bone, taken when he first arrived in the Dadaab refugee complex of north-eastern Kenya. Five months later, he still cannot walk. <P>"I fell off a car when I was heading to Kenya from the Bay region [in southern Soma...