Ils dormaient à la fraîche, près de l'eau sur la berge du Niger, quand avant l'aube l'explosion d'une roquette tirée sur le camp voisin de l'ONU a semé la panique chez les maraîchers de Gao, principale ville du nord du Mali. "Tout le monde s'est réveillé. On a couru vers les maisons, les enfants ...

Les présidents français et nigérien ont appelé mardi les rebelles touaregs du nord du Mali à signer un accord de paix négocié à Alger dans le but de stabiliser cette région pour isoler les jihadistes qui y sévissent. Lors d'un entretien à Paris, François Hollande et Mahamadou Issoufou "ont appelé...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Tuesday, disclosed that over 1.4 million Nigerians were currently in the custody of the agency, at its various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, located in the three states of the North-East of Adamawa, Borno and Gombe with Borno State hav...

MAIDUGURI—A Boko Haram suicide bomber yesterday sneaked into the Maiduguri Abattoir at Cattle Market (Kasuwan Shanu) killing 10 people and injuring scores of others. The incident occurred at the peak of trading at about 1:25 pm when the market was crowded with traders and buyers. This is coming l...

Militant Islamists in Nigeria have released a new video and, unusually, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau fails to appear in it. Instead, an unidentified young man speaks in the name of "The army of the caliphate in West Africa". Mr Shekau's absence from the video has fuelled speculation about his...

Defence chiefs briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the security situation in the country on Tuesday. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jubrin, made this known to newsmen in Abuja. Jubrin told State House Correspondents after the closed door meeting that the meeting, the first with the...

Dans la journée du 2 juin, un incendie a ravagé les entrepôts de l’UNHCR, de l’UNICEF et de l’OMS situés en périphérie de la ville de Niamey. Les pertes sont considérables d’autant plus qu’il s’agit notamment d’importants stocks destinés à la réponse d’urgence sur le front des épidémies tel que la m...

Without additional funding, food, shelter, education and other services will be severely reduced. NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA, June 4, 2015 (UNHCR ) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme warn that lack of funding threatens essential assistance to Mal...

Senate on Wednesday prescribed life imprisonment for rapists and other sexual offenders. This followed the passage of the Sexual Offences Bill which prescribes life jail for sexual offenders including rape, child sex tourism and people who deliberately infect others with the Human Immuno Virus/Ac...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic, said the Nigerian Army was formidable enough to crush the Boko Haram terrorist group. Buhari, who made this declaration after holding talks with Nigerien President Issoufou Mahamadou, asserted that the Nigerian Army, w...