By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA—The United Nations has warned Federal Government against returning internally displaced persons, IDPs, in the North-East to their homeland, saying the area was not safe. Giving the warning, yesterday, in Abuja at the Lake Chad Basin Regional Protection Dialogue for the victi...

Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres on refugee crisis in Europe Press Releases, 4 September 2015 The European Union is preparing key emergency meetings to take decisions in its response to the present refugee and migration crisis. The situation requires a massive com...

MAIDUGURI/YOLA, 17 November 2015 (IRIN) - Memuna* was four months pregnant when Boko Haram attacked her village on the outskirts of Bama, some 60 kilometres southeast of the Borno State capital of Maiduguri. Her husband was killed during the September 2014 raid. She was captured and thrown into a...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 100,000 people uprooted by violence and living in camps in northeast Nigeria are set to return home soon, but many fear for their safety and ability to rebuild their lives, aid agency staff said on Thursday. The Nigerian ...

* Pope Francis due to visit first conflict zone on Sunday * Trip coincides with a months-long surge in violence * Both Christians and Muslims welcoming the pope By Joe Bavier BANGUI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A 300-metre stretch of no-man's-land marks the entrance to PK5, an enclave in Bangui w...

With the crisis in the Horn of Africa continuing, UNCHR has noted an evolving displacement pattern during August with fewer Somalis displaced within Somalia or into Kenya or Ethiopia, but rising arrivals in Yemen. In Somalia, UNHCR’s Population Movement Tracking (PMT) partners have reported a sig...

Chit Min Tun — Voting will not take place in parts of Mon State’s Belin Township during the upcoming election, according to the Mon State Election Sub-Commission office. Earlier this month the Union Election Commission announced the list of townships where voting has been canceled. Baw Naw Khee Vil...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

Number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations says By Lin Taylor LONDON, Sept 23 - The number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations said on Friday, raising fears nei...