Thousands of Malian refugees are facing food shortages in Mauritania because of a delayed rations shipment and a shortage of funding, as donors juggle several global crises, an official from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. About 50,000 refugees fled to the Mbera camp after the...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Islamist guerrillas of Boko Haram have made the swamplands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet, into a "war zone", the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. About 60,000 people in the area have had to leave their homes, many of...

Au Cameroun, pas de répit dans la zone de combat contre les islamistes de Boko Haram. Après la violente attaque du camp militaire d'Achigachia qui a vu l'entrée en scène, pour la première fois, de l'aviation militaire, deux soldats sont décédés lundi et deux autres gravement blessés après que leur v...

"...they followed us, even in the deep water, and kept shooting at people in the boats and water" DAR ES SALAM CAMP, CHAD, 28 January 2015 (UNHCR) – Thousands of Nigerian refugees have been arriving in western Chad by canoe this month with harrowing tales of the situation in north-east Nigeria, a...

Selon les autorités locales, près de 10 000 personnes seraient arrivées ces derniers jours à Zinder, la deuxième ville du Niger, fuyant le conflit qui fait rage entre l'armée et Boko Haram près de la frontière avec le Nigeria. Depuis le 6 février, le groupe islamiste nigérian et ses éléments locaux ...

By Julia Payne MICHIKA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Since Nigeria's army began clearing large areas of the country's northeast from Boko Haram, some of the 1.5 million internally displaced people have started returning home. But thousands could now face severe food shortages as reconstruction lags behind...