Informes

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Nigeria's federal system and politics are deeply flawed, contributing to rising violence that threatens to destabilise one of Africa's leading countries. Failing to encourage genuine power sharing, they have sparked dangerous rivalries between the centre and…

This report highlights two key points: 1. Climate change jeopardises water supply for millions of people in developing countries and threatens mass movements of climate change refugees. Water scarcity undermines many other development goals. 2. The potentially catastrophic effects of climate change,…

Prepared by: Eben Kaplan On a continent rife with civil war and famine, Nigeria stands out as a nation brimming with both promise and peril. As the world's eighth-largest oil-producer, the country garners more international attention than its neighbors,…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 19 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo slapped emergency rule on southwestern Ekiti state on Thursday as tensions mount in two other Nigerian states over…

LAGOS, Oct 19, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Seventy eight percent cases of poliomyelitis infection in the world are traceable to Nigeria, George Cooke, chief of UNICEF field officers in Nigeria said on Thursday. On sidelines of a one-day workshop…

Tunis, 18 August 2006 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on Wednesday in Tunis, approved a loan of 22 million Units of Account (UA*),…

By Christine Jaulmes EKEREMOR, Nigeria, 18 October 2006 - Nigeria has launched a massive immunization campaign to protect 29 million children against measles, a highly contagious virus that kills more Nigerian children than any other preventable disease. On 3-9 October, more…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] GUSAU, 6 October (IRIN) - Water scarcity loomed in the northwestern Nigerian town of Gusau on Friday, six days after the dam for the reservoir supplying some 300,000…

In Nigeria, the ICRC focuses on prevention, humanitarian diplomacy and strengthening the capacities of the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) to help those in need of assistance. Cooperation with the Nigerian Red Cross The ICRC's operational presence in Nigeria is mainly…

Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa, with more than three million Africans forcibly evicted from their homes since…