22 May 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is deeply troubled by Boko Haram’s “continuing indiscriminate and horrific attacks” against the civilian populations of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, according to the United Nations. In a statement released today, a UN sp...

La recrudescence des violences dans le nord du Mali entraîne un nouvel afflux de réfugiés dans les camps aux frontières des pays voisins. A Mbera, dans le camp mauritanien, le HCR enregistre de nouvelles arrivées ces dernières semaines avec une nouveauté : la présence de Peuls de la région de Nampal...

Plusieurs milliers de manifestants sont descendus, mardi 26 mai, dans les rues de Bamako à l'appel de d'associations de la société civile, d'organisations de jeunes notamment, afin de montrer leur soutien à l'accord de paix signé le 15 mai par le gouvernement. Rarement les rues de Bamako ont reçu...

BAMAKO— Three United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in northern Mali when a vehicle in a convoy escorting their commander and the force's police commissioner hit a landmine on Thursday, officials said. The incident is the latest sign of a flare up in northern Mali, where U.N. troops trying to...

At least 57,000 people fled their homes, fearing violence or forced recruitment by armed groups. Renewed fighting between armed groups in the Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu areas of northern Mali in the past four weeks has led to some 57,000 people fleeing their homes, according to Malian authorities. T...

WHAT initially started in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as a mere skirmish between the police and members of a radicalised group, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram (Western education is forbidden), in July, 2009, when its then leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was...

he Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Muhammad Sidi, has called for collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to reduce the destructions usually caused by flooding to many communities in the country. Sidi, who was represented by the Head, Minna Operations Office, NEMA,...

Following the successful election and inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Internally Displaced Persons from Chibok and Gwoza, currently residing in Wasa 2, Abuja have called on him to totally liberate their communities and state of all Boko Haram elements so that they can return home; ev...

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) allegedly planted by suspected Boko Haram members on Sunday exploded at a popular market, Gamboru Market in Maiduguri, leaving four persons critically injured, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, Yunus Kaka has said.‬ ‪It would be recalled t...

Two Yobe towns, Fika and Ngalda, were on Saturday attacked by the Boko Haram insurgents that were on a looting spree, the chairman of Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State, Alhaji Baba Abare, told journalists on Sunday. According to Abare, the militants shot sporadically on arriving at the two...