30 June 2015 – The South Sudanese armed forces may have committed widespread human rights abuses, including the alleged raping and immolation of women and girls, during the recent upsurge in fighting across the African State, according to a new report released by the United Nations mission in the co...

The African Union Commission has commended the Federal Government for proper management of the more than two million Internally Displaced Persons in the North East. Dr. Aisha Abdullahi, Commissioner for Political Affairs, African Union Commission, made the commendation during an inspection visit ...

It’s often said that prevention is better than cure. But when it comes to the devastation wreaked upon civilians by armed groups, can cure serve as a form of prevention? For Imrana Alhaji Buba, a policy specialist at the Global Alliance of Youths Countering Violent Extremism, the answer is a reso...

Central African Republic - IOM has agreed with the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and humanitarian partners to assist in the voluntary return and reinsertion of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Mpoko IDP camp located next to the runway of Bangui International Airport. ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — They were taken deep into the Sambisa Forest to Boko Haram’s stronghold, where the more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok were offered a choice: Join the militants or become their slaves. About half of them chose to join and marry the fighters and were taken away, never to be hear...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani LAGOS, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the daughter of an assassinated Nigerian leader, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode was used to conspiracy and denial theories but she is determined the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria two years ago will not be turned ...

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...