Dala Abba, has just received a kit of core relief items from UNHCR and its partner, Action Initiative for Peace and Development (AIPD) for his family of seven. He is barely four days old in Banki and hoping to continue to his return trip to Pulka in Gwoza Local Government Authority (LGA), his area o...

Violence in the northeast has caused massive displacement and at the same time restricted movement: it has disrupted food supplies, seriously hindered access to basic services and limited agricultural activities. As of January 2017, it is estimated that 14 million people are in need of humanitarian ...

Five million people are hit by the humanitarian fallout of the Boko Haram insurgency. Beyond ending the war, this briefing, the last of four examining famine threats in Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia, urges donors to fund their UN aid pledges in full and the Nigerian government to step up r...

Les enfants réfugiés soudanais installés dans l’Est du Tchad, font face à une malnutrition qualifiée de critique par les acteurs humanitaires opérant sur le terrain. Une situation due à la réduction de la ration alimentaire ces dernières années.

The United Nations has appointed a new leader of the organisation that mobilises humanitarian aid during emergencies. As head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Sir Mark Lowcock will take on a dual role - Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emer...

Dans la matinée du 10 mai 2017, le Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés a lancé un nouveau système de distribution des vivres aux réfugiées enceintes, allaitantes et aux enfants de moins de 5 ans. Cette activité se passe dans le camp d’Ouré Cassoni dans la région de l’Ennedi Est, à ...

Over 1 million people have returned to northeast Nigeria since October 2015, often to towns with no basic services, infrastructure or ability for people to rebuild their lives. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is concerned returns are increasing tensions within communities, and tipping the food c...

DSG/SM/1058-SC/12820-HR/5361 Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the open debate of the Security Council on sexual violence in conflict, in New York today: Let me begin by commending Uruguay and the Deputy Foreign Minister in particular for hosting this import...

May 15, 2017 1:47 PM Anne Look / Moki Edwin Kindzeka MINAWAO, CAMEROON — Food shortages in northern Cameroon are raising tensions between local communities and Nigerian refugees displaced by the Boko Haram conflict. As a quarrel erupted between hawkers at the food market near the Minawao refu...

SC/12819 15 MAY 2017 SECURITY COUNCIL 7938TH MEETING (AM) Words, Laws, Resolutions Will Mean Nothing if Violations Go Unpunished in Practice, Deputy Secretary-General Stresses Shame and stigma were integral to the logic of using sexual violence as a tactic of war, torture or terrorism, the ...