Kayin armed groups will submit the provisions they want to amend in the 2008 Constitution to the Kayin Solidarity and Peace Committee before submitting them to the government, according to a member of the committee. "They are planning to submit the issues including the ones in the constitution to...

By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA—AN international organisation, OXFAM, yesterday, said over 330, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were in danger of epidemic in the North-East region of the country, because of lack of portable water and poor and sanitation. In an assessment report titled “Livelihoods a...

The Lake Chad basin has in recent years become an important epicentre of violence, its population suffering intensified attacks by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), also known as Boko Haram. At the end of 2014, ISWAP’s violence expanded from northeast Nigeria to Cameroon, Chad and Ni...

MAROUA, CAMEROON — Lara Salamatou wants to resume her education, but as Cameroon schools reopened Monday, the 16-year-old could only get lessons in frustration. She’d tried to enroll in the government high school in Maroua, the Far North provincial capital, after fleeing three months ago from ext...

Joint Civil Society Appeal to the new President The undersigned 21 international and Central African human rights organizations call on the new President, Faustin-Archange Touadéra to make the fight against impunity for grave international crimes a top priority for his government. Presiden...

The Nigerien army wants to expel Boko Haram from islands in Lake Chad. Thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes ahead of a planned offensive. The evacuation was poorly prepared, say human rights activists. Moussa Tchangari is furious as he describes how the evacuation was carried out...