Rapports

JOS, 26 May 2010 (IRIN) - Reverend Zang Tengong is certain a religious war is under way for the soul of Nigeria and believes the central city of Jos is the frontline where Islam's expansion southwards will be stopped. The…

Committee on the Rights of the Child 26 May 2010 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined third and fourth periodic report of Nigeria on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention…

May 26, 2010 | by Rachel Aicher Stanley Ibe is part of the Open Society Justice Initiative's legal team in Africa. I asked him to discuss Criminal Force: Torture, Abuse, and Extrajudicial Killings by the Nigeria Police Force, a recent…

JOS, 25 May 2010 (IRIN) - The angry mobs that terrorized the central Nigerian city of Jos at the beginning of the year have returned to their neighbourhoods, but it is hard to find many people who believe the…

Access to power and lucrative oil contacts are driving a rise in Christian-Muslim clashes and killings. Nigeria's heavy military presence is not enough to quell violence that plagues the No. 3 supplier of oil to the US. By Shyamantha Asokan,…

Poor pastoral conditions worsen food insecurity in parts of the extreme North ? A recent FEWS NET rapid assessment trip in the northern parts of Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Jigawa and Bauchi revealed that severe water shortages for livestock and domestic…

22 May 2010 22:45:20 GMT By Shuaibu Mohammed JOS, Nigeria, May 22 (Reuters) - Youths hacked to death three Muslim herders in central Nigeria on Saturday and burned their bodies, days after a curfew was lifted in a region where…

ADDIS ABABA, 21 May 2010 (IRIN) - "Local is best" for Africa, said a leading rice research centre as it announced on 21 May that it would focus on improving an indigenous species more than 3,500 years old to…

DAKAR, 21 May 2010 (IRIN) Nigerian police routinely carry out summary executions of suspected criminals, use torture to extract confessions from detainees, and rape as an interrogation technique, according to a report by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI),…

KANO, 20 May 2010 (IRIN) - Health authorities are on alert as Lassa fever has now claimed 17 lives and infected dozens of people in northwestern Nigeria's Kebbi State, according to state health officials. The last outbreak of the deadly…