Rapports

Nigeria: Testing Times and Second Chances Executive Summary Nigeria remains an important country, more populous than any other on the continent, in a position to offer leadership in the region and the world. With its growing social, cultural and economic links,…

I. OVERVIEW The report of the government-constituted Technical Committee on the Niger Delta, submitted to Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on 1 December 2008, offers an opportunity to reduce violent conflict significantly and begin longer-term regional development in the oil-rich region.…

Abuja/Dakar/Brussels, 30 April 2009: The Niger Delta risks sliding deeper into conflict and criminality and spreading instability across the Gulf of Guinea, unless Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua responds constructively to recommendations of a key committee. Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the…

Households across the country are generally food secure given the cumulative effects of widespread availability of agricultural products on markets and the recent arrival of off-season crops in many areas. A normal, progressive deterioration in food…

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, 25 April 2009 - A prominent community leader in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta says the unrest in the oil-rich region must stop. The appeal comes amid threats of renewed widespread violence in the region. The Nigerian…

Fatima, 31, is the mother of five young children, two of whom have already died of malaria. She lives in Kuki village in Kano state in northern Nigeria, 25 kilometres from the nearest town, at the end of a…

For World Malaria Day, 25 April, UNICEF and its partners are highlighting successes but calling for greater efforts to eradicate the deadly disease. Here is a related story. BAUCHI, Nigeria, 22 April 2009 - In Nigeria, malaria caues the deaths…

DAKAR, 20 April 2009 (IRIN) - The meningitis epidemic - the worst to hit West and Central Africa in five years according to the UN - is waning in hard-hit Nigeria, but Médecins Sans Frontières staff say the deadly…

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, 19 April 2009 - Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta region has seen a sharp rise in cult-related violence since the flawed elections of 2007. A violent insurgency has provided cover for militia gangs that now dominate…

AGOS, Apr 18, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A bloody crisis between the Hausa Fulani herdsmen and their host Tiv farmers in Adaka village in northeast Nigeria' s Benue State has claimed at least eight lives, the Lagos-based Vanguard…