Rapports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At the request of the President of Nigeria, the UK and US diplomatic missions arranged for an independent international electoral assessment team to make recommendations or holding credible elections in 2011. The five member team was led by…

ABUJA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group lifted a three-month ceasefire on Saturday and threatened attacks against Africa's biggest energy sector. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it did not believe the government…

By Marla Pierson Lester Jan. 29, 2010 AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is planning a relief effort to respond to the needs of thousands of people forced from their homes by violence in the city of Jos and…

The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) today said that those displaced as a result of the recent violence in Jos must be provided with adequate emergency shelter while efforts begin to provide a permanent solution to…

Moderate food insecurity is concentrated in northwestern Borno, northeastern Yobe, and northern Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara, where a late start, poor temporal distribution, and early cessation of rains led to major losses of cereal and cash crops. Since the…

KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) - Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos. Most of the displaced do not have enough food and…

We have pledged an initial sum of =A312,500 to assist 2,000 people made homeless by the recent violence in Jos, central Nigeria Our office in Jos has been working in partnership with a coalition of ten organisations, including the local office…

The Muslim-Christian armed clashes in Jos, capital of Plateau, have left 326 dead says a local police official, who advised that the authorities have imposed a curfew and movement restrictions to control the violence. "There are roadblocks everywhere and…

25 Jan 2010 14:59:39 GMT Source: Reuters * Official death toll at 326 killed, 313 arrested * Curfew relaxed in Jos (Recasts, updates official death toll, arrested) By Randy Fabi ABUJA, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Many of the Nigerians responsible for the sectarian clashes that…

25 Jan 2010 20:07:09 GMT Source: Reuters By Austin Ekeinde PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A coalition of former Nigerian militants and Niger Delta community leaders rejected on Monday government efforts to reintegrate thousands of ex-rebels, saying training centres and…