Humanitarian

Relief and gratitude as Médecins du Monde returns to work in Damboa three months after an aid worker was killed
An international non-governmental organisation, Médecins du Monde, has resumed work in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State three months after ceasing its activities when one of its staff members was stabbed and shot

Surrendered widow says she almost returned to the insurgents because the government did not keep its promise to support her
A widow with six children, who fled from insurgents in Sambisa Forest, nearly returned to her old ways because the government – which is urging extremists to lay down their arms and give themselves up,

Facilitators receive training to keep girls off the streets, in schools and ensure they are safe at all times
Girl Child Concerns (GCC), in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has been training facilitators to encourage girls to get an education and establish safe spaces to avoid becoming victims

Facilitators receive training to keep girls off the streets, in schools and ensure they are safe at all times
Girl Child Concerns (GCC), in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has been training facilitators to encourage girls to get an education and establish safe spaces to avoid becoming victims of gender

Local NGO helps 30 victims of the insurgency and gender-based violence to become whole again
Thirty members of Jire Dole – a network for mothers and wives of disappeared men, former detainees and survivors of abduction and gender-based violence (GBV) – have attended a two-day training workshop to help build their resilience, mental health

Second cohort of Nigerian refugees living in Cameroon voluntarily repatriated to their homeland
The second cohort of more than 200 refugees – who fled to Cameroon and who have been staying at the Minawao camp in that country – have been voluntarily repatriated to their ancestral community in the border town of Banki in the Bama

Local association offers free circumcisions to almost 300 vulnerable and poor children
The Association of Ka Fadi Alheri ko Kayi Shiru (Speak good words or remain silent) has sponsored circumcisions for almost 300 vulnerable children – mainly the kids from internally displaced persons (IDPs) and those from poor families

Families of fallen heroes in Borno State beg the government, philanthropists and God-fearing individuals for support
The families of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members who paid the supreme price and died on battlefields in the fight against the insurgency have called on the Borno State government, philanthropists and God-fearing individuals

After a three-day vacation notice, government extends deadline and pledges to find new land for IDPs in Sare 1 camp
Philanthropists and God-fearing individuals have saved internally displaced persons (IDPs) from being evicted from Sare 1, an unofficial informal camp in Maiduguri – at least for now.

If we don’t get aid soon, we will starve to death
“If we don’t get help soon, displaced people – especially children and the elderly – are going to die from starvation.”