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  • 5.6 million children at risk of waterborne diseases as rainy season hits communities affected by Lake Chad crisis

    news United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 23 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )
    DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr...
  • Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on returns to northeast Nigeria

    news UNHCR, 21 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    I am extremely worried that large numbers of Nigerian refugees hosted in Cameroon are again returning to northeast Nigeria - into a situation dangerously unprepared to receive them. Three weeks ago UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned about the situation in the Nigerian border town of Banki where tho...
  • Nigeria plans intervention framework for refugees, migrants, IDPs: acting president

    news china.org, 21 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    LAGOS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria will unveil a National Integrated framework for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) by September, Yemi Osinbajo, the country's acting president said Tuesday. The acting president made this known at a ceremony to commemorate the 2017 World Ref...
  • UNHCR donates sanitation equipment to IDPs in Yobe

    news Sunnewsonline, 21 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday donated sanitation equipment to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Damaturu, Yobe, to enhance their living condition. Mr Gabriel Idoko, the Head, UNHCR in Yobe, presented the materials to the displaced persons at Kukareta ...
  • UNHCR wants education, economic rehabilitation of IDPs in Yobe

    news Dailytrust, 20 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has appealed to stakeholders to support the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe with opportunities to rebuild their lives. The Head, UNHCR in Yobe Mr. Gabriel Idoko, who made this appeal on Tuesday at the commemoration of t...
  • UNHCR urges integration of IDPs

    news Pulse, 20 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday appealed to stakeholders to support the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe with education, safe living condition and economic rehabilitation. Mr Gabriel Idoko, Head UNHCR in the state, made the appeal at the comme...
  • One meal a day: the Lake Chad crisis in pictures

    news The Guardian, 16 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    The extreme north of Cameroon is suffering a food shortage exacerbated by climate change and conflict with Boko Haram. Fighting has spread across the borders from Nigeria into the countries of the Lake Chad region creating a refugee and famine crisis. It was once a tourist destination, but now peopl...
  • On Boko Haram front line, Nigerian vigilantes amass victories and power

    news Reuters, 15 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon. But 38-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an ambush, a...
  • Nigeria: What UN, Nigerian Govt Are Doing to Tackle 11 Million Out-of-School Children - Envoy

    news Allafrica, 14 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    By Ebuka Onyeji and Agency Report A former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, says the destructive activities of Boko Haram contributed to the estimated 11 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, particularly in the north-east. The Boko Haram insurgency has caused about 100,000 deaths since ...
  • In the eye of the storm: Niger and its unstable neighbors

    news The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level., 13 Jun 2017 (7 years ago )
    A poor, sun-scorched Sahel country, Niger is rapidly becoming a key U.S. and Western counterterrorism ally. The former French colony already hosts French troops, and, as part of its TransSahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, the United States is building a $100 million drone base there to monitor an...