The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the horrific terrorist attacks on 30 January 2016 attributed to Boko Haram in Dalori village in north...

About 450 children died of malnutrition in 28 Internally Displaced Persons’ camps in Borno state in 2015, an official has said. The Executive Director of the Board of the Borno Emergency Management Agency, Sule Mele, disclosed this on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maid...

The United States will give $40 million in humanitarian assistance to countries bordering Lake Chad fighting Islamist militant group Boko Haram, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday. The money was to help about seven million people affected by the insurgent group t...

Carol Batchelor, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey, said that they were expecting the number of Syrian refugees to reach a new high of 3.5 million people, whereas up to 1 million of them were likely to seek asylum in Turkey by the end of this year....

4 May 2016, Presidents Paul Biya and Muhammadu Buhari announced the holding of tripartite talks and eventual signing of an agreement for the repatriation of Nigeria refugees from Cameroon. Buhari-BiyAfter two days of concertation “the two leaders also agreed that a Tripartite Meeting of the two c...

By Alex Whiting LONDON, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world has become increasingly violent with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high, terrorist attacks at an all-time high and more people displaced than at any time since World War Two, the 2016 Global Peace Index showed on Wednesda...

11 June 2015 – The Central Africa region is still facing many challenges, including an economic crisis aggravated by the drop in oil prices, rising youth unemployment, and terrorist activities, as well as the cross-border impact of crises in Central African Republic (CAR) and Burundi, the Special Re...

Some of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last year have been brainwashed to begin fighting for the Islamist group, with many carrying out public beatings and even killings, other captives have told the BBC. Women who claim they lived in the same camps as some of the 219 ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 100 people were killed Sunday evening in northern Nigeria in a quick succession of what appeared to be carefully coordinated bombings by Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group. The attacks, near the airport in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, were the deadliest ...