Reports

This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals. Appeal Target CHF 2,387,609; Budget revised on 30 August 2001 to CHF 2,204,976 Period covered: July - September 2001; last Programme Update (No. 1) issued 30 August 2001 At…

ABIDJAN, 30 November (IRIN) - One person was killed and eight churches vandalised during a religious riot by hundreds of people in the southwest Nigerian city of Osogbo, Osun state, news organisations reported on Friday. The rioters were reportedly…

The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now posted a new country profile on internal displacement in Nigeria. A summary is presented below. The complete profile can be accessed at www.db.idpproject.org or sent to you by e-mail…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) Tel: +225 22-40-4440 Fax: +225 22-41-9339 Email: IRIN-WA@irin.ci [This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KADUNA, 22 November (IRIN) - Reputed for decades to be…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KADUNA, 15 November (IRIN) - When religious and ethnic violence erupted last year in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, claiming more than 2,000 lives, it took the…

AFR 44/006/2001 187/01 Amnesty International today called for a prompt, effective and impartial inquiry into reports that troops have shot dead more than 100 people in central Nigeria in reprisal for the murder of soldiers. "It appears that the attack by…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) NIGERIA: Scores die in anti-U.S. protests in northern city LAGOS, 15 October (IRIN) - Heavily armed troops were maintaining an uneasy calm in Nigeria's northern city of Kano…

From ICRC NEWS  37 Some 50,000 people fled their homes after fighting erupted between Christians and Muslims in Jos, in central Nigeria, on 7 September. Most sought refuge in military bases, police stations, churches, schools and even the city's airport. Clashes,…

A fragile truce held Thursday in the Nigerian city of Jos after a week of street battles between Muslims and Christians left more than 500 people dead MAIL & GUARDIAN REPORTER Fighting flared on Tuesday after Muslim residents in the city's…

Compiled from wire services JOS, NIGERIA - Religious and community leaders appealed for calm in the central Nigerian city of Jos yesterday amid efforts to stem four days of Christian-Muslim violence that has killed at least 70 people. After a…