Humanitarian
Evacuated IDPs in dire need of money and food
Life outside the closed state-run internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri is not easy. Many of the IDPs who have settled in host communities are finding it hard to make […]
Cameroon: Authorities committed to the return of refugees and displaced persons
The resurgence in December of intercommunal conflict in Logone and Chari in Cameroon’s Far North spread to several surrounding towns and villages and led to the displacement of more than […]
Teaching self-reliance and empowering women
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has stepped in to help the Farya community in Maiduguri to become more self-reliant – especially the women. en.More than 400 residents went through an […]
A starving New Year for stranded IDPs who are desperate for government payout
No food, no water and no money – the New Year does not look good for those stranded in internally displaced persons’ camps of Maiduguri, who are still waiting for […]
Thousands of IDPs get reprieve as government payout agreement is delayed
The festive season and the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari to commission projects in Maiduguri on Wednesday, December 23, has given thousands of internally displaced persons some reprieve. They were […]
Teenager dreads evacuation from Teachers Camp in Maiduguri
Many men have tried to have sex with her, her brother was hit by a car while begging and now 17-year-old Adama Muhammad, who looks after her five siblings and […]
Government lied to us about food assistance, claim IDPs
In Brief – The government has not kept its promise to provide healthy and essential food and, when it did help feed internally displaced persons in Maiduguri’s Teachers Village Camp, […]
We could starve to death, say resettled internally displaced persons in Pulka
Internally displaced persons who have been returned to their community in Pulka, Gwoza, are “knocking on the door of starvation”, as the World Food Programme described it. Many of those […]
Yobe State women demand that the government implement law to stop gender-based violence
The message was loud and clear: The culture of silence about gender-based violence (GBV), which has become a scourge in northeast Nigeria, must end. “Women’s voices must be heard,” so […]
Children and pregnant women, particularly those in IDP camps, are most at risk of life-threatening severe malaria
Children under the age of five and pregnant women – especially those living in internally displaced camps – are most likely to suffer from severe malaria and could even die […]
