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UN relief chief pledges support for Nigeria
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, has ended a four-day visit to Nigeria, pledging support and promising the United Nations will…
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Scores of civilians dead, UN chief condemns ‘appalling’ attacks in Nigeria
The Secretary-General, António Guterres, strongly condemned on Monday the “appalling” attacks perpetrated over the weekend in Nigeria’s Zamfara State in which scores of civilians were killed. According to…
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I see a light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria : A UN Resident Coordinator blog
Edward Kallon, the outgoing UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, is moving on after five years in the past.…
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Displaced in northeast Nigeria ‘knocking on door of starvation’: WFP
Displaced families in Nigeria’s northeast are “knocking on the door of starvation”, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The alert…
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FROM THE FIELD: 4.4 million Nigerians facing ‘catastrophic food conditions’
Some 4.4 million people in Nigeria are facing what the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, is describing as “catastrophic food conditions”.…
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First Person: Learning a recipe for freedom in Nigeria
When Nigerian Blessing Ojukwu became pregnant after she was raped, her family disowned her. She was forced to live with her abuser,…
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South Sudanese ‘one step away from famine’, as UN launches humanitarian response plan
As hunger levels continue to deepen in South Sudan due to a combination of violence, climate change and COVID-19, the…
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UN chief calls for ‘unconditional release’ of abducted students in Nigeria
The UN chief on Friday, has strongly condemned the latest mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria, in the country’s northwestern…
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Nigeria: Traumatized, abducted schoolchildren need rehabilitation – independent rights experts
In Nigeria, too little is being done to help teenagers left traumatized by the recent spate of attacks on schools and mass abductions, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday. In an alert issued on the sidelines of the Human…
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Abducted girls released in northwest Nigeria, as fresh attacks rock country’s northeast
While the release of more than 200 girls abducted from their school on Friday in northwest Nigeria is a welcome…
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