By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A spate of attacks by Boko Haram in southeastern Niger in recent months is hindering the delivery of aid to more than 200,000 people forced from their homes, aid agencies said on Thursday. Niger's Diffa region is hosting around 220...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria said on Monday that aid agencies, including the United Nations, were exaggerating the levels of hunger in the strife-torn northeast to get more funding from international donors. In the last few months, Boko Haram insurgents, who have killed 15,000 people and displaced ...

Ali Mboudou was at home with his children one night in late 2015 when Boko Haram militants entered his village. They came in trucks and on foot from many directions, heavily armed. “We were surrounded. Everyone was a hostage,” he tells IRIN via a translator. “After two days, some of our men ca...

Millions go hungry in Nigeria, as its people are fleeing violence and suffering under the inflation of food prices. Saleh stands in line for his monthly food basket, battling the harmattan season of dust and dry heat. He has a family of 12 to feed and food assistance is critical. “I used to be...

Snatched schoolgirls and suicide bomb blasts have long been the enduring images of Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict. But now the violence is represented by thousands of new faces: those of starving children. Scenes like these haven’t been seen here since the 1967-70 war with secessionist Biafra. ...

By Alex Whiting ROME, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 percent of refugee families in Chad are going hungry after their food rations were cut two years ago, forcing many to reduce the number of meals and pushing some into debt, according to United Nations agencies. Chad in ce...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Up to a million people around West Africa's Lake Chad are cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko Haram despite a regional military offensive against the Islamist militants, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. Boko Haram viol...

As Ali Kawu eases his handcart to a halt on a recent morning in north-east Nigeria, it is the first time he has dared to stop walking in more than 24 hours. A day earlier, at 8am, Boko Haram militants raided his village. Kawu, 25, escaped with what he could – his wife, their three children, and k...

Paris et onze pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest ont décidé de resserrer leur coopération dans la lutte contre le terrorisme jihadiste qui reste une priorité dans la bande sahélo-saharienne et en France. En début de semaine les ministres de l'intérieur et de la défense des 11 pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest se ...

(Abuja) – Government officials and other authorities in Nigeria have raped and sexually exploited women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram. The government is not doing enough to protect displaced women and girls and ensure that they have access to basic rights and services or to san...