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Tchad : Filippo Grandi préoccupé par les conditions de vie des déplacés de Baga Sola
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UN Radio, 15/12/2016
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Le Haut-Commissaire pour le réfugiés est en déplacement au Tchad où il s'est notamment rendu dans la région du Baga Sola où vivent plus de 100 000 personnes qui ont été déplacées par des militants du groupe Boko Haram, y compris des ressortissants du Nigéria et du Niger. Cette visite de Filippo Grandi se fait dans le cadre d'une tournée dans la région qui vise à attirer l'attention sur les besoins des deux millions de personnes qui ont été déplacés dans la région du Bassin du Lac Tchad.
À Baga Sola, le Haut-Commissaire s'est inquiété des conditions difficiles dans lesquelles vivent les familles de déplacés, en dépit des efforts du HCR et du gouvernement local.
La stratégie militaire consistant à isoler les insurgés du groupe Boko Haram sur des îles du Lac Tchad après avoir déplacés les populations a permis d'améliorer la situation sécuritaire, mais... |
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Nigeria: Suicide attacks kill dozens in Madagali
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Aljazeera, 09/12/2016
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Attack on a vegetable market near a Boko Haram stronghold kills at least 30 people and wounds more than 50.
Two schoolgirl suicide bombers killed 30 people and wounded dozens in a coordinated attack on a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Madagali, an army spokesman said.
The attack on Madagali, which was recaptured by Nigerian forces from Boko Haram fighters in 2015, was carried out by two female school children, according to military spokesman major Badare Akintoye.
"They detonated two bombs at the same time killing 30 people and they also died," he told AFP news agency.
"At least 30 people have been killed in the suicide blasts carried out by two female suicide bombers in the market. Several people have been injured in the attack."
Ahmadu Gulak, a driver who was buying tea at the market, said the two blasts struck simultaneously on Friday morning at opp... |
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Boko Haram attacks hinder aid delivery in southeastern Niger - agencies
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Reuters, 06/12/2016
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By Kieran Guilbert
DAKAR, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A spate of attacks by Boko Haram in southeastern Niger in recent months is hindering the delivery of aid to more than 200,000 people forced from their homes, aid agencies said on Thursday.
Niger's Diffa region is hosting around 220,000 displaced people - split almost evenly between uprooted Nigeriens and Nigerian refugees - who have fled violence by the Islamist militants on both sides of the border, the United Nations says.
The region has been targeted around 15 times since September in attacks blamed on Boko Haram, causing thousands more to flee and restricting access to those in need of aid, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Boko Haram militants have killed about 15,000 people and displaced some 2.6 million in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria during a seven-year campaign... |
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Helicopter aid reaches 45,000 in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria -UN
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Reuters, 06/12/2016
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By Kieran Guilbert
DAKAR, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Flying in aid workers by helicopter to remote, hard-to-reach areas previously cut off from help by Boko Haram violence across northeast Nigeria has provided more than 45,000 people with aid over the past week, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Many of those receiving aid have received little or no assistance so far, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said.
A military push against the jihadist group Boko Haram has enabled troops to enter remote parts of northeast Nigeria in the last few months, but insecurity and the fear of violence has restricted access to some areas by road for many aid agencies.
Some 4.6 million people are going hungry across the region, of whom two million need food aid urgently, the WFP said.
"These missions help avert famine and aim to reach tens of thousands of hungry people stranded... |
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Poverty, prejudice drive more women to join Boko Haram militants
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Reuters, 06/12/2016
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By Kieran Guilbert
DAKAR, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Failing to improve the lives of girls and women trapped in poverty and domestic drudgery in northeast Nigeria could drive them into the ranks of extremist groups, analysts said on Monday.
Many girls and women have been abducted by the jihadist group Boko Haram and used as cooks, sex slaves, and even suicide bombers, according to rights groups including Amnesty International.
Yet some women in the mainly Muslim northeast, frustrated by poverty, gender discrimination and deep-rooted patriarchy, have chosen to join Boko Haram voluntarily in the hope of a better life, an International Crisis Group (ICG) report said.
"For some women trapped in domestic life, Boko Haram offers an escape," Rinaldo Depagne, West Africa project director for the ICG, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Dakar, Senegal.
"But this reflec... |
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Hunger affects millions in Nigeria
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Norwegian Refugee Council, 05/12/2016
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Millions go hungry in Nigeria, as its people are fleeing violence and suffering under the inflation of food prices.
Saleh stands in line for his monthly food basket, battling the harmattan season of dust and dry heat. He has a family of 12 to feed and food assistance is critical.
“I used to be a pastoral and grain farmer, I had land in Gwoza. The violence changed everything,” he says.
In 2014, Gwoza fell under Boko Haram control for almost a year. Saleh fled with his family to Maiduguri, 135 km from his hometown, to escape the violence that caused many people to go missing or lose their lives.
“They burnt our huts, our land is gone. I have nothing left,” says Saleh.
In addition to food assistance, Saleh receives business skills training and financial support through the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) food security and livelihoods programme. Now, Saleh is looki... |
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The human cost of Chad’s war against Boko Haram
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IRIN, 05/12/2016
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Ali Mboudou was at home with his children one night in late 2015 when Boko Haram militants entered his village. They came in trucks and on foot from many directions, heavily armed.
“We were surrounded. Everyone was a hostage,” he tells IRIN via a translator.
“After two days, some of our men came together and we decided to escape. In the flight, eight people were caught, and the Boko Haram cut their throats. I saw some of the bodies.”
Mboudou, 37, gathered his family and fled into the bush in the ensuing chaos.
As he relates the story, he sits back on his haunches in the hot sand, his crisp green jalabiya gathered between his knees. He runs a big hand over his closely shaven head.
The village Mboudou fled from was Blarigui, located in the remote swamplands of the Lake Chad Basin, close to Chad’s border with northeastern Nigeria.
It took him a whole day to cross... |
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Boko Haram food crisis demands cooperation and accountability
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IRIN, 01/12/2016
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Snatched schoolgirls and suicide bomb blasts have long been the enduring images of Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict. But now the violence is represented by thousands of new faces: those of starving children.
Scenes like these haven’t been seen here since the 1967-70 war with secessionist Biafra.
As many as 4.5 million people need food aid in the northeast of the country, according to the UN’s World Food Programme. It warns that “famine-like conditions” may be occurring in remote pockets of the region.
Food shortages are the inevitable consequence of the seven-year insurgency that has displaced more than 2.5 million people.
Several planting seasons have passed with little farming activity in the affected states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. The conflict areas are hard to reach, but reports hint at the deliberate destruction of farm production by both sides, as well as th... |
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Nigeria's presidency says aid agencies overstating northeast hunger
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Reuters, 05/12/2016
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria said on Monday that aid agencies, including the United Nations, were exaggerating the levels of hunger in the strife-torn northeast to get more funding from international donors.
In the last few months, Boko Haram insurgents, who have killed 15,000 people and displaced two million since 2009, have been driven back from an area the size of Belgium, revealing thousands of people that aid agencies say are near starvation.
President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman said "hyperbolic claims" were being made by, among others, U.N. agencies about the region, where the United Nations says some 75,000 children are at risk of starving to death in the next few months.
"We are concerned about the blatant attempts to whip up a nonexistent fear of mass starvation by some aid agencies, a type of hype that does not provide solution to the situation on the ground but more t... |
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The small African region with more refugees than all of Europe
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The Guardian, 26/11/2016
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As Ali Kawu eases his handcart to a halt on a recent morning in north-east Nigeria, it is the first time he has dared to stop walking in more than 24 hours.
A day earlier, at 8am, Boko Haram militants raided his village. Kawu, 25, escaped with what he could – his wife, their three children, and kindling for a fire. They left behind their papers, six sacks of beans, up to 15 dead neighbours, and 10 kidnapped villagers. Then they walked all day and all night.
“Every minute I would look back to see if they were following us,” Kawu says, shortly after reaching the safety of Monguno, a town recaptured from Boko Haram last year. “Walking forward, looking back, walking forward, looking back. I thought it was the end of my life.”
But safety doesn’t mean comfort. Kawu is just the latest of approximately 140,000 displaced people sheltering in this remote town of 60,000 people.... |
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