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Nigeria: Risk of Man-made Famine Threatens Millions
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International Rescue Committee , 15/09/2016
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Maiduguri, September 15, 2016 — The Northeast of Nigeria is teetering on the brink of famine as 5 million people are in urgent need of food assistance, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said today. All actors, including the international community, the Nigerian government, and the UN should acknowledge the scale and address the humanitarian crisis and shift away from a perspective of large scale recovery and returns in nearly all of Borno state. The IRC reclassified the emergency to its highest levels and is significantly scaling up its response, both in scope and in reach, to save the lives of those caught in the middle of Boko Haram’s war.
The numbers are staggering and IRC medical teams on the ground are reporting incredibly high levels of admissions with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Available evidence indicates that a food security Emergency (IPC Phase 4) is occurri... |
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Nigerian refugees in Niger struggle for food and water
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Aljazeera, 12/09/2016
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Despite recent gains against the Boko Haram in Nigeria, many of those who fled the group are still struggling.
Thousands of Nigerian refugees in neighbouring countries such as Niger have been struggling for resources since fleeing attacks by the Boko Haram group.
The Nigerian army has taken back the rebel group's last remaining strongholds in the northeastern Borno State and, while the United Nations reports that people have started returning to their devastated towns and villages, thousands remain in neighbouring countries, including Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
People at a UN-run camp in Niger's Diffa told Al Jazeera that they no longer feared Boko Haram, but that they were struggling to get on with their lives because of a lack of resources.
"We are not scared here. But we are hungry and thirsty," Ghoni Malem Baker, a refugee, said.
"There is no security issue. Our proble... |
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Nigerians facing desperate hunger accuse officials of stealing food
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The Guardian, 13/09/2016
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People fleeing Boko Haram protest over ‘starvation’ in camps amid claims of officials diverting rations, as UN warns the country is on the brink of famine
Nigerian officials have been accused of stealing food from desperate people who are living in camps after fleeing the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Camp residents, who fled their homes and have been living under flimsy shelters for years, have resorted to angry protests against “starvation”. They say trucks full of food have gone missing, and that government officials are diverting emergency food relief to their own homes.
“In the night they load up vehicles with food and take it away to their houses,” said one man, who was shot by Boko Haram before finding his way to one of the camps in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, a year ago. “But I can’t complain. [A local official] said that if I complain he will te... |
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How Boko Haram Is Keeping Polio Alive In Nigeria
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NPR, 14/09/2016
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Nigeria has to get rid of polio — again.
Last year, the World Health Organization declared the country to be "polio-free." That milestone meant the disease was gone from the entire continent of Africa, a major triumph in the multibillion-dollar global effort to eradicate the disease.
But that declaration of "polio-free" turned out to be premature.
Three new cases of polio have been confirmed in areas liberated from Boko Haram militants, prompting health officials to launch a massive campaign to vaccinate millions of children across four countries in West and Central Africa.
Before the cases were found, the world appeared extremely close to making polio the second human disease after smallpox to be eradicated. There had been fewer than two dozen polio cases in 2016, clustered in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Then health officials in Nigeria found three paralyzed kids inside p... |
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After Boko Haram, Nigerians return home to perilous northeast: U.N.
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Reuters, 09/09/2016
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of Nigerians who fled Boko Haram in northeast Borno State have returned to devastated towns and villages in recent days after the army seized back the militant group's last remaining strongholds, said the United Nations.
Families will return to find their homes and farmland destroyed, basic services wiped out and will live under the persistent threat of attacks by the jihadist group, Leo Dobbs, spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Many of the areas they are going back to have been completely devastated," said Dobbs. Homes and healthcare, agriculture, and security services are in ruin after around two years of Boko Haram rule, he added.
Despite the Nigerian army's success in driving Boko Haram out of occupied territory that 18 months ago was the size of Belgium, the militants still manage... |
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Niger: deux morts dans l’attaque contre un camp de réfugiés maliens
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RFI.fr, 11/09/2016
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Au Niger, une attaque a visé, dans la nuit du samedi 10 au dimanche 11 septembre le camp de réfugiés de Tabarey Barey. Le site, situé à la frontière avec le Mali, abrite des milliers de réfugiés maliens ayant fui leur pays au plus fort de la crise dans le nord du Mali. Au moins deux civils ont été tués et les assaillants, non encore identifiés, sont toujours en fuite.
C’est aux environs de minuit, heure locale, que le camp de réfugiés maliens, en territoire nigérien, a été attaqué. Des assaillants, pour l’instant inconnus, ont tiré de loin sur le camp de Tabarey Barey dans la préfecture d’Ayorou, à la frontière malienne.
Officiellement, le bilan est de deux morts et quatre blessés parmi les réfugiés maliens. Du côté des forces de défense et de sécurité, on ne dénombre aucun mort, selon l’état-major général des forces armées nigériennes.
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Cameroon Students Face Setbacks as School Resumes
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voice of America, 07/09/2016
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MAROUA, CAMEROON — Lara Salamatou wants to resume her education, but as Cameroon schools reopened Monday, the 16-year-old could only get lessons in frustration.
She’d tried to enroll in the government high school in Maroua, the Far North provincial capital, after fleeing three months ago from extremist violence near her home in Kerawa on the border with Nigeria. She was turned away because of overcrowded classes and few teachers, she said.
Now, Salamatou is among at least 100,000 displaced youths whose education has been jeopardized this academic year, according to Cameroon’s government.
Authorities recently shut her school in Kerawa, along with 160 others, because of cross-border raids by the Nigerian-based Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. Schools in host communities are overcrowded and insecurity has delayed construction of more classrooms.
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Nigerian army faces new dangers in Boko Haram campaign
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Reuters, 07/09/2016
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Extent of Boko Haram destruction becoming clear
* Ambush threat remains on roads to liberated towns
* Civilians continue to flee Boko Haram guerrillas
* Rains preventing assault on forest stronghold - army
By Ulf Laessing
BAMA, Nigeria, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has liberated large swathes of land from Boko Haram but a ride with an army convoy, all guns firing for fear of ambush, shows how far the northeast is from normality after a brutal Islamist insurgency that has displaced millions.
The moment military convoys leave the relative safety of Bama, Borno state's second town, soldiers in the lead vehicle open fire with a heavy cannon into the scrub along the road to pre-empt attacks by remaining fighters from the Islamist group.
As they head for the regional capital, Maiduguri, the soldiers scan the road for bombs or booby-traps, while shooting at any pos... |
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Nigerian army faces new dangers in Boko Haram campaign
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Reuters, 07/09/2016
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Extent of Boko Haram destruction becoming clear
* Ambush threat remains on roads to liberated towns
* Civilians continue to flee Boko Haram guerrillas
* Rains preventing assault on forest stronghold - army
By Ulf Laessing
BAMA, Nigeria, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has liberated large swathes of land from Boko Haram but a ride with an army convoy, all guns firing for fear of ambush, shows how far the northeast is from normality after a brutal Islamist insurgency that has displaced millions.
The moment military convoys leave the relative safety of Bama, Borno state's second town, soldiers in the lead vehicle open fire with a heavy cannon into the scrub along the road to pre-empt attacks by remaining fighters from the Islamist group.
As they head for the regional capital, Maiduguri, the soldiers scan the road for bombs or booby-traps, while shooting at any pos... |
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In the Tracks of Boko Haram in Cameroon
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IRIN, 06/09/2016
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Two years ago, the Cameroonian government declared war on Boko Haram. Despite some progress, the group’s violent impact is still seen and felt deeply in the remote north of the country.
n March 2016, Crisis Group Analyst Hans De Marie Heungoup travelled for four weeks into an insecure area only few researchers are given access to: Cameroon’s Far North Region. He was escorted three days by the military between the front-line towns of Ldamang, Mabass, Kolofata, Amchidé and Gansé, before he went on to travel alone across the region: to Maroua, the Minawao refugee camp, Mokolo, Mora, Kousseri and Goulfey. During the four weeks he spoke to a wide range of people, including traditional chiefs, local inhabitants and administration staff, refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), vigilante groups, local NGOs, humanitarian actors, academics, the military, former Boko Haram member... |
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