Reports

Highlights In week 11, the number of new confirmed cases decreased from 50 in epi week 10, 2024 to 35. These were reported in Bauchi, Taraba, Edo, Ondo, Plateau, Benue, Cross River, and Ebonyi States (Table 3) Cumulatively…

Demography & Sampling The Community Sentinel Surveillance was meticulously designed as a sample-census approach, employing a methodology where 10 communities or settlements were chosen per ward. Within each cycle, data collection involved visits to 5 communities or…

Date: Tuesday, 27th February 2024; Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Public Health EOC Conference Hall, Eye Hospital, Maiduguri (In-person) and Virtual (MS Teams) Chair: Ms. Fati Ali, Director Primary Health Care, Borno SPHCDB; Co-chair: Abba Sadiq…

Highlights The efforts of the government and partners are ongoing to increase access to health services and reduce the prevalence of epidemic-prone and vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, while the increasing number of affected people by improvised explosive devices…

A spate of abductions in Nigeria is heightening tensions in the country. In this Joint Brief with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Kingsley Madueke, Lawan Danjuma Adamu and Ladd Serwat highlight findings from…

GENEVA (15 March 2024) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today expressed outrage at the recent abductions by gunmen of hundreds of people in Nigeria. “I am appalled by the recurrent mass abductions of…

With over 220 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and the sixth most populated in the world. The country’s extreme poverty rates – approximately 46% of the country lives below the national…

Responding to the abduction of at least 60 people by gunmen in Buda, in the state of Kaduna, Isa Sanusi, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said: “Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu and his government must urgently address the…

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. HUNDREDS REMAIN MISSING FOLLOWING MASS ABDUCTIONS ACROSS NIGERIA At…

HIGHLIGHTS As of February 25, 2024, 34,704 suspected cases of diphtheria were reported across Nigeria, Guinea, Niger, Mauritania, South Africa, Cameroon, and Gabon. Nigeria was the most severely affected, accounting for 78% of cases and 70% of…