Reports

While political parties play tug of war in the House of Commons in Canada and Barack Obama puts together his Cabinet in the US, thousands of people are homeless and hundreds more are grieving after violence broke out in…

Francisco Rey Marcos Coautor del texto y entrevista: Jesús García-Luengos (Para Radio Nederland) Nigeria, el país más poblado del continente africano con más de 140 millones de habitantes, se asoma pocas veces a las portadas de los medios de…

By Geoffrey Njoku ABUJA, Nigeria, 4 December 2008 - Nigerian First Lady Hajia Turai Yar'Adua has pledged her commitment to maternal mortality reduction in Nigeria. The First Lady met with UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative Dr. Suomi Sakai, saying that she will…

JOS, 4 December 2008 (IRIN) - Water, medicine and food supplies are running low for an estimated 10,000 people displaced by violence in Jos, northern Nigeria, following three days of violent clashes. Calm has been restored to the city following sectarian…

Abuja (ICRC) - Hundreds of people lost their lives and many more were displaced amid sectarian violence that followed disputed local elections held in Jos, the capital of Plateau state in north-central Nigeria, on 27 November. Many homes, churches, mosques,…

JOS, Nigeria, Dec 03, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Nuhu Dagar, commissioner for information and communication in Nigeria's central Plateau State, said the state government is working toward setting up more camps for the victims of the…

While the attention of most of the world drawn to the terrorist slaughter of nearly 200 people in Mumbai this weekend, less-reported but equally violent events errupted in Nigeria as a response to disputed local elections last week. CRWRC has…

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, 02 December 2008, The curfew imposed on the central Nigerian city of Jos, after clashes between rival Christians and Muslims is likely to be relaxed further as relative peace returns to the city. Thousands of…

By Randy Fabi JOS, Nigeria, Dec 1 (Reuters) - An outburst of bloodletting at the cusp of Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south shows how easily ethnic and religious rivalries can be exploited to political ends in Africa's most populous…

SG/SM/11975 AFR/1784 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the inter-communal violence in the Nigerian city of Jos, which has resulted tragically in the loss of so many lives,…