Regional News
Alliance members pledge their continued support in the Sahel
Members will focus on three priorities: creating employment opportunities, building resilience to shocks, and promoting regional development and access to basic services. Despite complex and multiple challenges affecting peace, security […]
Cross-border trade with Niger a messy bottleneck
Even though borders with Niger have reopened, traders in Borno State say security officials are stopping their vehicles from crossing into the neighbouring country, negatively affecting business. Despite the reopening […]
World Food Programme’s aid cuts lead surrendered insurgents to return to the fighters in the forests
Surrendered insurgents say they would rather live with the fighters again than starve to death in internally displaced persons’ camps in Borno State. The World Food Programme (WFP) has unexpectedly […]
Malnutrition cases in Borno State have escalated by a staggering 48% since last year
Many mothers are so poor that they are selling a life-saving food supplement meant for babies and young children just to get money to feed their whole families. Compared with […]
Escalating abductions for ransom keep women holed up at home
Residents grateful to government for providing more security but they say they will never be safe as long as insurgents roam Borno State forests There were so many women abducted […]
Resettled houses in Borno State’s Konduga district are a ‘total disgrace’
IDPs say although they have complained to local authorities, no one in the Konduga district has responded, so they continue to live in filth and squalor in homes that are […]
Women grounded by recent spate in the number of kidnappings
Women firewood collectors say they are too scared to go to the bushes because they are easy pickings for insurgents who lie in wait to kidnap them. The recent spate […]
Maiduguri-Gamboru Ngala road a hellish highway that has already claimed many lives
Frequent attacks by insurgents and armed criminals, hundreds of potholes and major accidents make the highway a nightmare drive, particularly in the rainy season. Motorists, traders and passengers who use […]
Food aid stampede: 11 injured and four others admitted for emergency care
Chaos as huge and uncontrollable crowd storms Borno State government’s palliative food aid distribution centre in Damboa Several people fainted and 11 were injured, four seriously, in a stampede that […]
Niger coup: Closed borders are having a devasting effect on fishing trade
Traders say the once-thriving Baga fish market in Maiduguri is becoming a ghost of its former self because dealers can no longer conduct business with Niger merchants
