Armed groups also targeted a refugee hosting area at Intikane in western Niger and killed two refugee Refugees finding themselves in the Liptako-Gourma, the border triangle where Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Since an initial outbreak in northern Mali in 2011, armed conflict has spread to central Mali, to Niger insecurity and COVID-19 measures mean our ability to reach all in need in the remote parts of Burkina Faso, Niger

Mighty is a 16 year-old girl in a refugee camp in northern Nigeria who is raising her three younger brothers In addition to kidnappings, one million children in northern Nigeria have no access to schools. from tall buildings, children starving in villages isolated from their farms by Fulani militants in Nigeria From Nigeria, we have met Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi and his wife, Gloria, who have adopted 300 children 21Wilberforce to “Ruth Children,” and support our partners providing education for displaced children in Nigeria

Arab nations argued that French colonial massacres in Algeria had been instances of genocidal violence of some 300,000 people in the Darfur region of Sudan , the murder of more than a million during the  Nigeria-Biafra

South-West region’s economic heartbeat and highly frequented by merchants operating between Cameroon and Nigeria

attacks in the Sahel have increased over the last two years, especially in the tri-border region of Niger The so-called G-5 Sahel nations comprise Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad - all former

The Sahel – which includes Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger — is home to some of the world’s least Already this year, violence in Niger and Burkina Faso has forced more than 21,000 people to flee their

and girls affected by the violence and respond to immediate humanitarian needs To the Government of Nigeria As is the norm throughout Nigeria, Muslim women in the North East do not usually own land or homes. While Nigeria does not recognise polygamous unions under federal civil law, the twelve northern states Marrying soon after puberty is a main reason the North East has Nigeria’s lowest school attendance ratio This became a global affair, with leading female civil society activists throughout Nigeria joining in

of regulations to stifle online dissent and already inspired governments in countries as varied as Nigeria

Russia, China and Pakistan abstained, while Algeria did not vote. on the future cannot, must not, belong to anyone other than the people under colonial domination,” Algeria He urged Sahrawi refugees held in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria to endorse The king also renewed his call for a “brotherly dialogue” with Algeria and said Morocco is committed Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff had said the US is working on a peace deal between Algeria and Morocco.

estimated $112 million on arms, making it the third largest arms purchaser in Africa, after oil-rich Nigeria This racist double-standard was pointed out repeatedly by Nigeria’s Ambassador Gambari in the U.N.

division in the Southwest is currently the hotbed of the insurrection, because of its proximity to Nigeria Thousands of people have fled to neighbouring Nigeria, and tens of thousands to other, less-exposed departments Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recorded 7,204 Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria This would have repercussions in Nigeria where local backing for Anglophone militants undoubtedly exists Southeast Nigeria has long been a centre of various irredentist or secessionist disputes, and has several

Most of the supplies used to come to Timbuktu from Mauritania and Algeria. The city's economy is normally centred around trade with neighbouring Niger and Algeria but the JNIM's Tuareg groups in Libya, Algeria and Niger have voiced their solidarity for Mali's separatists, with one Nigerien rebel leader calling on fighters "to join them on the front line". , Algeria and Libya to support us in the battle."