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NGO builds health centre for displaced persons and host populations in Lac Province in Chad
Non-governmental organisation (NGO) Concern Worldwide, with financial support from the European Union (EU), has built and fully equipped a health centre in Fourkoulom in the Lac Province of Chad. The […]
Breeders and fishermen conflict: Oundouma refugees benefit from humanitarian assistance
Many displaced people in the far north of Cameroon still need assistance more than a month after a land dispute on August 10 in the Logone-Birni district resulted in violent […]
Niger: Hundreds of people demonstrate against escalating insecurity in Tillabéri
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Tillabéri on Saturday, September 18, to protest against severe and escalating insecurity. Civil society had launched the call for national cohesion and […]
UNICEF and EU provide mental health support to out-of-school children in Borno State
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are providing community-based psychosocial services to more than 5,000 out-of-school children in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. The […]
G5 Sahel forces dismantle extremist network in border zone
Members of the G5 Sahel forces have dismantled an extremist network in the border zone of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. They discovered the network through informants. The G5 Sahel […]
Early marriages a violation of girls’ rights
The childhood of thousands of girls in Niger is cut short by early marriages. The Civil Code in Niger sets the minimum age of marriage for girls at 15, placing […]
Hundreds of ex-combatants returned to Nigeria from Cameroon
More than 850 former fighters of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS), commonly referred to as Boko Haram, returned from northern Cameroon to Nigeria on Saturday, September 18. The […]
Dancing and singing as Nigeria and Cameroon reopen El Beid Bridge border
Residents danced and sang on the El Beid Bridge on Thursday, September 9, as delegates from Cameroon and Nigeria agreed to reopen the border between the two countries. The border […]
Already starving Nigeriens face chronic food crisis
Residents in Niger’s Anzourou are starving and terrified. Their fields are deserted. They lie in bed at night listening for the return of insurgents. They know it could be imminent. […]
‘Exceptional crisis’ in Sahel a growing concern for the UN Human Rights Council
Poor governance of natural resources, patterns of poverty and inequality, insufficient access to basic services, high unemployment rates among young people and discrimination against minorities, women and girls – these […]
