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...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, August 18 (UNHCR) – Kadija is in shock. Over the past two weeks, the 32-year-old Somali has lost her livelihood, fled her rural home and ended up in a dismal settlement in one of the most dangerous cities on earth. "I don't have my own house and my children can't go out and pl...

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...

After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything. His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980...