(UNICEF) – Around 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in northeast Nigeria between Boko Haram, military forces and civilian self-defence groups [...]
(Reuters) – Nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face “severe acute malnutrition” due to drought and a seven-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in [...]
(UN News Centre) – With nearly 400,000 children facing starvation in Nigeria, and citizens suffering with little to no protection, security, food or access to clean water, “Nigeria is [...]
(UN News Centre) – The number of children involved in ‘suicide’ attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger has risen sharply over the past year, from 4 in 2014 to 44 in 2015, [...]
(Al Jazeera) – A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram fighters firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the [...]
(OHCHR) – Three United Nations human rights experts today called on the Government of Nigeria to aim at the transformation of society in its efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate the [...]
(BBC) – Witnesses say some are now being used to terrorise other captives, and are even carrying out killings themselves. The testimony cannot be verified but Amnesty International says [...]
(BBC) – The Nigerian military says it knows where the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are but will not attempt a rescue. Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff said it was “good news [...]
(United Nations Security Council) – The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the suicide bomb attack on 10 November 2014 committed against the Government Science [...]
(OCHA) – The UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Yassine Gaba, currently Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim, strongly condemns the deadly combined attack which took place [...]
