Rapports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 24 June (IRIN) - Two villagers were shot dead and several others injured by soldiers searching for weapons in Nigeria's volatile Plateau State, witnesses said on Thursday. The…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 16 June (IRIN) - The Nigerian government said on Wednesday that it planned to start repatriating more than 17,000 people who fled from eastern Nigerian into Cameroon…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] WARRI, 14 June (IRIN) - Six people were killed when Nigerian troops raided an Ijaw village in the troubled Niger Delta in search of weapons and were engaged…

In Brief Appeal No. 01.31/2004; Programme Update no. 1; Period covered: 01 January to 30 April 2004; Appeal coverage: 45.8%; Outstanding needs: CHF 2,337,821 (USD 1,849,500 or EUR 1,522,000) Appeal target: CHF 4,315,140 (USD 3,240,811 or EUR 2,777,689) Related Emergency or Annual…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 10 June (IRIN) - A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed on the town of Numan in Nigeria's eastern Adamawa State. Police have been given orders to shoot…

LAGOS, June 10 (Reuters) - Scores of people may have been killed in clashes between suspected Christian mobs and Muslims in the northeast Nigerian state of Adamawa, a government spokesman said on Thursday. Police said on Wednesday that seven people were…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 9 June (IRIN) - At least 10 people have been killed in two days of clashes between the Muslim minority and Christian majority in Numan town in…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] PORT HARCOURT, 7 June (IRIN) At least 50 people died in a clash between government troops and Ijaw militants near the oil city of Port Harcourt in southeastern…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KANO, 4 June (IRIN) - Police have banned a street procession planned by a Muslim sect in the volatile northern city of Kano on Saturday, following the killing…

WARRI, 1 June (IRIN) - The leaders of rival ethnic militia groups shook hands and agreed peace in the Nigerian oil town of Warri on Tuesday, while government officials urged foreign oil companies to resume operations in the troubled…