Reports

Executive Summary Vigilante groups in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad play a major role in the fight against Boko Haram, but their presence raises concerns. They make military operations less blunt and more effective and have reconnected…

HIGHLIGHTS IDP caseload in Nigeria’s Borno State increases by 135,290 people between December 2016 and January 2017 Recent report highlights that populations in northeastern Nigeria continue to face severe protection risks Humanitarian support likely preventing deterioration in food security…

RÉPONDRE À LA CRISE LA PLUS AIGUË D’AFRIQUE Le Bassin du Lac Tchad est aux prises avec une situation d’urgence humanitaire complexe affectant quelque 17 millions de personnes dans les zones les plus touchées au nord-est du…

CURBING THE TREND IN AFRICA’S MOST ACUTE CRISIS The Lake Chad Basin is grappling with a complex humanitarian emergency affecting some 17 million people across north-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon’s Far North, western Chad and south-east Niger. The combined…

OVERVIEW The BH insurgency and the military’s counterinsurgency has resulted in a severe crisis in Nigeria’s northeast. More than 20,000 people have been killed and 4,000 women and girls abducted since the conflict began eight years ago.…

Immense challenges face 150 million people across the Sahel. These include violent extremism, climate change and abject poverty, and a fourth – the demographic explosion that will see the region’s population double in the next twenty…

Mausi Segun | Senior Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch Snatched schoolgirls and suicide bomb blasts have long been the enduring images of Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict. But now the violence is represented by thousands of new…

Highlights • In the three most directly affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, 8.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, with 1.68 million IDPs, of whom, over 50 per cent are children. • The 2017…

Highlights In 2017, displaced and returnee population as well as impoverished host communities in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are most affected by the conflict in north east Nigeria and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Over 131,000…

Highlights With UNICEF’s support, nearly 370,000 children have been vaccinated against measles in 2016. A mass measles vaccination (integrated with Vitamin A supplementation and screening for malnutrition) is underway in 16 IDP camps in MMC and Jere…