Rapports

Three weeks ago, violent conflict rocked the city of Jos in central Nigeria. Around 350 people died and as many as 5,000 may have been displaced. Action Aid Nigeria, supported by the UK government's Africa Conflict Prevention Programme (ACPP), was…

Oga Steve Abah State elections provided the spark. The ensuing riots left hundreds dead, many bludgeoned with machetes, churches and mosques burned to the ashes, thousands displaced and a community more divided than ever. The sudden explosion of religious violence…

Government Should Set up Independent Investigation (New York, December 19, 2008) - Nigerian police and army forces were implicated in more than 90 arbitrary killings in responding to inter-communal violence between Christian and Muslim mobs in Jos, Nigeria, on November…

Abuja - UNIFEM organized a training workshop for one hundred police officers on police response to violence against women and human trafficking, at the UN House in Abuja on 11-12 December, in collaboration with UNICEF, Action Aid and the…

With a complex range of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups competing for access to resources, outbreaks of violence leading to significant situations of short-term internal displacement are frequent in Nigeria. Many internally displaced people (IDPs) seek refuge with family and…

(Dec. 10, 2008 - OTTAWA) The Canadian Red Cross is encouraging Canadians to give the gift of life-saving bed nets this holiday season as it launches two major net distributions to help prevent malaria in Africa. Over the next…

To facilitate the restoration of peace in the Niger Delta, the MEND militants said they would be willing to disarm and that they have entrusted some local religious leaders to start peace negotiations with the government. The news, published…

LAGOS, Dec 07, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has condemned in a message to Nigerians the recent carnage which claimed hundreds of lives in Jos, Plateau State, urging all Nigerians to come together…

LAGOS, Dec 06, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) - Tension and fear gripped Minna and Kontagora towns in Nigeria's Niger state on Friday over the news of possible reprisal of last week's Jos riot, in which 300 people…

The chief of police for the state of Plateau, Samson Wudah, was removed from office by the head of the Nigerian federal Police. Local newspapers said that Wudah was dismissed on account of the methods that he used to…