Rapports

Three months' reorientation for amnesty gunmen - Training, education offered to avert return to unrest By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Niger delta gunmen who hand in their weapons under a Nigerian government amnesty will undergo three months of reorientation and…

The clashes last July in northern Nigeria between the 'Boko Haram' militants and the police have left at least 1234 orphans of one or both parents and at least 392 widows said the local Red Cross official, Alhaji Bullam…

Security officers are identifying about 3500 members of the 'Darul Islam' community, which had been evacuated from their enclave in Mokwa, in the Niger state. The measure comes as part of the government's announced controls to prevent tensions after the…

...Cases of Spread and Death recorded in Adamawa State The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has alerted state governments, especially in the Northern part of the country to take proactive measures against the spread of Cholera Epidemic which has so far…

The Nigerian Joint Task Force (JTF) has retreated from the area of Gbaramatu, in the Niger Delta, occupied in May during the offensive against the MEND separatist group in the Niger Delta, the main armed group in the southern…

GENEVA - "Forced evictions can only be justified in the most exceptional cases and in full compliance with international human rights law," said today United Nations independent expert Raquel Rolnik, while expressing her concern at the mass evictions planned by…

ABUJA, 7 August 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction experts welcome a scheme proposed by Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to extend insurance to vendors who lose their assets in floods and fires in the country's north-central Kaduna state,…

Jean Herskovits guest column Nigeria's latest spate of violence -- which began with attacks on police stations in four northern states -- is not what it seems. Superficially, the story looks similar to -- though it was not connected with -- outbreaks…

Nairobi/Abuja_(dpa) _ A 60-day amnesty for militant groups in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta came into effect on Thursday - a move the government hopes will end attacks on oil facilities. Nigeria's main militant group the Movement for the Emancipation of…

Religious bloodshed could break out again - Poverty, jobs and education are key By Nick Tattersall LAGOS, Aug 6 (Reuters) - An uprising by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria may ostensibly have been about religion but such bloodletting will…