Among many women who brought their children to the WHO-supported mobile team for free healthcare services was Aisha, a 29-year-old mother of 6. Keeping her children healthy is a top priority. However, she lives in Ngandu, a remote village located in Kaga, Borno state, Nigeria, which for several year...

Elodie Kavugho, 41, and her eight children lived in a leaking tent for months before they had a secure roof over their heads again.

The department of farmland management under Karen state government, has returned 232.4 acres of land that were confiscated in the past by by light infantry batallion (338) and (339), state prison authority, and former industrial zone 2, to its original owners on June 17. The returned land are from...

By Ebuka Onyeji and Agency Report A former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, says the destructive activities of Boko Haram contributed to the estimated 11 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, particularly in the north-east. The Boko Haram insurgency has caused about 100,000 deaths since ...

GENEVA (13 January 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts will visit Nigeria from 18 to 22 January 2016 to examine the measures to assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of the women and children who escaped or were liberated from Boko Haram captivity. “All measures taken or in...

14 January 2015 Ms. Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR Regional Representative, met with the Governor of Marsa Matrouh, Major General Staff Officer Badr Tantawi Al Ghandour, OMDA and government officials in Marsa Matrouh and Salloum in the North Coast of Egypt, to extend UNHCR’s appreciation for the continued sup...

The Tenasserim Division government has offered farmers whose land was confiscated only a single “house-hold plot” of land for every three acres of farmland seized by the divisional government. The farmland was seized by the Tenasserim government last year to construct the project, which is located i...

Mogadishu, 7 June 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay welcomed the release today of 11 crew members of the ship MV Albedo, held hostage since November 2010, and called for all remaining captives still being held by Somali pirates to be relea...