Rapports

By ADAM NOSSITER Published: February 8, 2011 YENAGOA, Nigeria - The oil money has coursed through this swampy, sprawling settlement in the Niger Delta, a paper gusher that has yielded ambitious unfinished skeletons: a ghostly high-rise hotel; a luxury shopping center-in-waiting;…

Ed note: This is a guest post by Andrea Gay, Executive Director of Children's Health at the United Nations Foundation. Cross posted at USAID's Impact Blog. For the last ten years, I have seen thousands of children cry after being…

Sect warns of further attacks * Leader voiced solidarity with al Qaeda last year * Police urge residents not to panic By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect in northeastern Nigeria threatened an uprising against the government…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT - A record crop was gathered in 2010 and rangelands have recovered well. - A much improved and satisfactory food availability is expected during the 2010/2011 marketing year - However, the 2009/10 food crisis has had very adverse, longer-term…

Killings increasingly high-profile * Pressure to deploy additional security forces By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect in northeastern Nigeria shot dead a senior police officer on Tuesday, days after one of the…

Four months after the completion of the 2010 growing season, food supplies are high at market and household levels, in most states of the country, following above-average cereal and cash crop production in October. In most parts of the…

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked the federal government to declare a state of emergency in Plateau, of which Jos is capital, following recurring violence in the state in recent times. NLC's Vice President…

Government Should Urgently Protect Civilians, Invite UN Expert to Jos (Dakar, January 27, 2011) - A deadly spate of sectarian violence in Nigeria's central Plateau State since December 24, 2010, has killed more than 200 people, Human Rights Watch said…

Villagers blame soldiers for weekend killings * Army denies accusations of bias By Shuaibu Mohammed JOS, Nigeria, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Villagers staged protests against the military in central Nigeria on Monday, hurling stones and burning the tents of soldiers who they…

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, has called on the Nigerian government to ensure full justice for victims of the recurrent violence in the northern city of Jos by bringing to…