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Rat poison sales boom in Nigeria over Lassa fever fears
news AFP, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Monday 1/25/2016 - 02:57 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR Sales of rat poison have taken off in Nigeria following an outbreak of Lassa fever that has left at least 76 people dead and sparked fears of contagion across the country. In the northern city of Kano, the capital of one o... -
UNHCR and partners seek over US$500 million for Nigeria and CAR refugee crises
news UNHCR, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )"The suffering is great and the needs acute among both the displaced and host communities" UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners on Monday called on donor nations for more than half-a-million dollars this year to help hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee conflicts in Nigeria an... -
Twenty-five dead in suicide bomb attack on north Cameroon market
news Reuters, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Four suicide bombers killed about 25 people in a village in Cameroon's Far North region on Monday, a local official said, the most deadly in a string of recent attacks in an area beset by violence connected to Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Two bombers struck the Bodo central market while ot... -
A la Une: Boko Haram se rappelle à notre bon souvenir…
news RFI, 26 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Quadruple attentat suicide hier à Bodo dans le nord du Cameroun : 4 jeunes filles transformées en véritables bombes humaines ont pulvérisé le marché du village. Trente-deux personnes, dont des femmes et des enfants, sont mortes déchiquetées. « Le Cameroun est en guerre », s’exclame le bihebdomad... -
Une série d'attentats-suicides frappe un marché de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun
news France 24, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont été tuées dans des attentats-suicides qui ont touché le marché de Bodo, village de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, région frontalière du Nigeria régulièrement ciblée par les terroristes islamistes de Boko Haram. Un marché de la localité de Bodo, dans la région de l’E... -
Nigeria: Tears of joy as families are reunited with missing relatives
news ICRC, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )The humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad region has left thousands dead, two million displaced, hundreds abducted, and hundreds of thousands forced to flee, often losing contact with their families. The ICRC is locating people and putting them back in touch with their missing relatives. Brothers ... -
Suicide bombers strike Cameroon village
news DW, 26 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Four suicide bombers have killed around 25 people in the country's rural north. Violence is suspected to be linked to Islamist militant group Boko Haram active in the region. Authorities said on Monday that two bombers struck the Bodo central market while others hit the town's main entrance and... -
UPDATE 3-Suicide bombers kill 32, wound dozens in northern Cameroon
news Reuters Africa, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )* Four explosions target market, entrances to town * Northern Cameroon battling wave of Boko Haram violence * Islamist suicide attacks increasingly frequent (Updates death toll, adds quote, details) By Josiane Kouagheu DOUALA, Cameroon, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting a town... -
CAMEROUN : Quand Boko Haram féminise le crime...
news GCI, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )Le djihadisme se féminise indubitablement sous la férule criminelle de Boko Haram qui a frappé ce lundi 25 janvier le Cameroun, comme il ne l’avait jamais fait. Quatre jeunes filles qui se font exploser, emportant dans leur cynisme plus de 32 victimes, lâchement assassinées et une soixantaine de ble... -
UN Calls for More Support for Nigeria's Boko Haram Displaced
news VOA, 25 Jan 2016 (8 years ago )LAGOS, NIGERIA— Three U.N. special investigators who visited three displaced persons camps in war-torn Borno State say Nigeria must do more to help its people, particularly its women and children. Boko Haram's nearly seven-year quest to impose strict Islamic law across the country's northeast ...