11m out-of-school children in North-East Nigeria – UN
(Vanguard) – The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, says there are about 11 million out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria due to the destructive activities of the [...]
Food insecurity threatens children in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia – UNICEF
(UN News Centre) – Calling for immediate humanitarian action amid rising malnutrition, thirst and disease, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that millions of [...]
Nigerian military blames homeless for botched air strike
(AFP) – Nigeria’s military on Friday blamed an unexpected gathering of homeless people for a botched air strike that killed 112 at a camp for those displaced by the Boko Haram [...]
Attacks increasingly targeting displaced people in northeast Nigeria
(NRC) – Dozens of people were killed yesterday when multiple suicide bombers detonated devises outside a camp sheltering displaced people in Borno State. Attacks on civilians sheltering in [...]
Use of children as ‘human bombs’ rising in north east Nigeria
(UNICEF) – UNICEF is extremely concerned about an appalling increase in the cruel and calculated use of children, especially girls, as ‘human bombs’ in northeast Nigeria. Children have been [...]
UN brokers deal to end use of children in Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram
(The Guardian) – A landmark agreement between the UN and the Civilian Joint Task Force will end the use of children in the conflict against Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria. According to [...]
Nigeria: No red lights to saving lives
(MSF) – Around the world, three wheelers offer a cheap means of urban transport. In Gwoza in north-east Nigeria, these small three-wheeled vehicles, known locally as keke napeps, are more [...]
Boko Haram Video Is Said to Show Captured Girls From Chibok
(The New York Times) – A video released in Nigeria on Monday by Boko Haram purports to show girls among those abducted in 2014 from a school in the town of Chibok vowing to stay with their [...]
Statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict on the attack against Bursari Government Girls Science Secondary School in northeast Nigeria
(OSRSG-CAAC) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, calls for the unconditional release of all the girls abducted during the [...]
Boko Haram frees group of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls
(Al Jazeera) – Nearly all of the 110 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria last month have been released by the armed group, according to the government. The government [...]
