December 21, 2016 Stories UNHCR pledges aid to thousands displaced in Lake Chad Basin Wrapping up a 10-day visit to Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria, Filippo Grandi vows to assist 460,000 people displaced by insurgency.
December 16, 2016 Stories UNHCR chief visits Cameroon refugee camp and launches appeal Filippo Grandi meets with Nigerian refugees driven from their homes by Boko Haram violence, and later presents funding appeal that aims to help them
October 7, 2016 News Freed from Boko Haram, Nigerians still need help Some children are malnourished and many families have nowhere safe to sleep amid lack of basic supplies and services in areas recaptured from insurgents
September 25, 2016 Stories Fear and shortages as Boko Haram displaced return to ruins Around 70,000 people have found destruction, insecurity and scarcity on arrival in Gwoza, a city liberated earlier this year from militants in northern Nigeria.
May 24, 2016 Multimedia Brothers run again and again as Boko Haram terror spreads Nigerians who found safety in neighbouring Niger, with thousands of others fleeing militants, move again as insecurity grows.
April 22, 2016 Profiles REFUGEE exhibition opens in the US, featuring work of Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop “We cannot be in our comfort zone and forget about what is going on next door”