The United Nations has appointed a new leader of the organisation that mobilises humanitarian aid during emergencies. As head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Sir Mark Lowcock will take on a dual role - Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emer...

LAGOS, NIGERIA— Three U.N. special investigators who visited three displaced persons camps in war-torn Borno State say Nigeria must do more to help its people, particularly its women and children. Boko Haram's nearly seven-year quest to impose strict Islamic law across the country's northeast ...

Hope is rising for the return of millions of internally displaced Nigerians to their homes and communities as plan for rebuilding of the North-Eastern states affected by insurgency has advanced significantly. Last week the pre-financing assessment jointly carried out by the federal and state governm...

Carol Batchelor, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey, said that they were expecting the number of Syrian refugees to reach a new high of 3.5 million people, whereas up to 1 million of them were likely to seek asylum in Turkey by the end of this year....

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Islamist guerrillas of Boko Haram have made the swamplands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet, into a "war zone", the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. About 60,000 people in the area have had to leave their homes, many of...

Libreville (AFP) - More than 14,000 people fleeing Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria have streamed into Chad since the beginning of 2015, according to a United Nations report on Wednesday. The report by the UN's Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) put the daily arri...

KIGALI, Rwanda — The number of Burundians fleeing political violence is expected to reach 500,000 this year, and the United Nations is seeking more land for refugee camps in neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday. Hundreds have died in the East African nation since April ...