Since November, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has evacuated over 1,000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya and is looking for durable solutions for them in third countries. On Tuesday, a flight departed from Tripoli bound for, Niamey, Niger, carrying 128 refugees and on Wednesday, a second plane...

Taraba State Police Commissioner, Mr. Shaba Alkali yesterday confirmed the arrest of two Boko Haram Commanders, Abdulmumuni Abdullahi and Ali Audu (alias Dungu), who are among the 100 terrorists declared wanted by the military. Alkali, who stated this in his office in Jalingo while briefing journali...

NIAMEY Dec 12 (Reuters) - Niger will audit its electoral register ahead of a presidential election in February 2016 following demands from opposition parties, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said on state television. The decision is a victory for parties opposed to President Mahamadou Issoufou who is...

Desperate South Sudan villagers, fleeing fighting across the country, are eating grass and roots to survive as humanitarian organisations start costly air drops of food to northern parts of the country. UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said on Tuesday the international community h...

Rose Wakulu is exhausted. Yet the 25-year-old sits upright on a wooden chair in an abandoned school classroom, breastfeeding her 28-day-old nephew Ibrahim. Boko Haram fighters killed his mother and twin on the day he was born. At Wakulu’s feet sits 5-year-old Moses Luka, the son of another of Wakulu...

Government ministers and ethnic leaders held preliminary talks in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday ahead of a key meeting today with the president and military commander-in-chief aimed at finally concluding a nationwide ceasefire agreement. U Aung Min, head of the government negotiating team, and other Unio...

Abuja – Rep. Sani Zorro, Chairman, House Committee on IDPs, Refugees and North-East Initiatives, on Monday, decried the forceful repatriation of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon. Zorro said this when Volker Turk, the United Nation Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Assistant High Commission...

N'DJAMENA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Chad's national assembly extended a state of emergency in the western Lake Chad region by four months on Wednesday following a double attack by Boko Haram militants that killed some 12 people. "The state of emergency is prolonged by 147 unanimous votes by the parliam...

Representatives of nine ethnic health groups from across Myanmar recently held a three-day meeting at the Thailand-Myanmar border to discuss how to deal with challenges they face in delivering medical assistance to people in need as an increasing number of international aid groups withdraw programs ...