by Maggie Dougherty Northeast Nigeria isn’t known for being easy. It’s a complex environment: hot, dry and prone to droughts. Infrastructure is weak. Roads, hospitals, water systems and electricity simply don’t function throughout much of the state. The government health systems struggle to provi...

Humanitarian organisations in Chad have commenced an identification operation to help Chadian returnees at risk of statelessness to get documentation. With nearly 400,000 refugees on its territory, including more than 71,000 people from the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad is one of the main ...

8 May 2017 – Welcoming Saturday’s release of 82 of the schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Chibok by the Boko Haram insurgent group three years ago, the United Nations has called for continued global support for the country’s efforts to release, rehabilitate and reintegrate all Boko Haram...

7 May 2017 – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today welcomed yesterday's release of more than 80 of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents over three years ago. “It is heartening to know that the girls will be returning to their families who have been waiting for this...

Mrs Liz Ahua, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for West Africa, says massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone poses great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua said this on Sunday in Banjul at the opening ceremony of a three-day ministeria...

Les réfugiés centrafricains installés dans les camps d'Amboko et Gondjé depuis 2003 sont pris en charge par le centre de santé communautaire du village autochtone de Beureuh dans la circonscription administrative du département de la Nya Pendé. Communauté locale et réfugiés sont traités au même pied...

Le Tchad à travers ces deux départements notamment Goré dans la Nya Pendé et Mbaibokoum dans le Mont de Lam accueille depuis 2003 les réfugiés centrafricains. Compte tenu de l'insécurité qui prévaut toujours en RCA un afflux massif des nouveaux réfugiés vient de rejoindre ceux installés dans les cam...

4 May 2017 – Children in north-east Nigeria continue to be brutalized as a result of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the region and the ensuing conflict, a first-of-its-kind United Nations report has concluded. “With tactics including widespread recruitment and use, abductions, sexual violence, attack...

4 mai 2017 – Dans un rapport transmis au Conseil de sécurité sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé au Nigéria, le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, António Guterres, exhorte le groupe extrémiste Boko Haram à mettre un terme aux violations graves qu'il continue de commettre contre des enfants. ...

"This camp is already broken," said a field worker responsible for food distribution to children at the camp in Banki, asking not to be identified while he discussed the conditions endured by residents of the destroyed town. Three hundred women and children were queuing for water in the scorching...