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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

* 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...

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...

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 ...