At least eight people were killed on Monday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria. The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said the blast injured 15 others in the London Ciki area of Maiduguri, which has been at th...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Denied an education by the Islamist insurgency of militant group Boko Haram, tens of thousands of children across the Lake Chad region are instead tuning into lessons broadcast over the radio, the United Nations children's agency (U...

Sixty-year-old Falmata Ali Tela and her family live in Fertilizer, an unfinished housing estate turned into an emergency camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Named for the shuttered fertilizer factory on site, the camp is home to over 15,000 people, many of whom are displaced by the fighting in the northe...

MAIDUGURI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of AUD$3 million (US$2.2 million) from the Government of Austral-ia that will provide food and nutritional assistance to tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria, where the Boko Haram insurgency and the curr...

Southeastern Niger is a Kanuri region, the same ethnic group that in Nigeria form the bulk of Boko Haram. Before the insurgency began in 2009, Mohamed Yusuf, the founder of the group, and his successor, Abubaker Shekau, were familiar figures in Diffa. But nobody IRIN spoke to believed that affini...

LAKE CHAD BASIN Violent conflict, caused by the militant extremist group Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria, has been raging since 2009. The violence has since spread to the neighbouring border regions of Cameroon, Niger and Chad, directly affecting around 17 million people. In addition, this area...

Some students living in war-hit countries like Syria and Yemen have to go to extraordinary lengths to complete their end-of-year tests. For most children, exam time means cramming in last-minute studying, a nervous walk to school and a worrying wait for the results. But for many others, it can...

ICRC joins UK MPs in call for urgent action With over 11 million people now affected by the ongoing crisis in four countries of the Lake Chad basin (Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon), the ICRC addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) in the Houses of Parliament this week. ...

Le Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination à l'égard des femmes examine le rapport du Nigéria GENEVA (14 July 2017) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eight periodic reports of Nigeria on its implementation of the pr...

13 July 2017 – Amid rising terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa and the United Nations envoy for the region called on the Security Council to further support national and Regional efforts to combat this "serious threat", including strengthening the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel. ...