Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Germany hands over 22 artifacts looted by British colonists to Nigeria

Nigeria on Tuesday received 22 looted artifacts

Nigeria on Tuesday received 22 looted artifacts from the German government, as part of the official repatriation of 1,130 Benin bronzes taken away by European countries from the West African country over 120 years ago.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Boko Haram confirms custody of Nigeria's 110 missing schoolgirls

Boko Haram confirms custody of Nigeria's 110 missing schoolgirls
A faction of Nigeria's terror group Boko Haram has confirmed that the 110 missing school girls in the country's northeastern town of Dapchi are in its custody, a negotiator that used to bring together military officers and Boko Haram commanders for negotiations said on Friday.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Nigeria to send more troops to find missing schoolgirls

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Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he will be sending more troops and surveillance aircraft to search for schoolgirls who were declared missing after suspected Boko Haram terror group attacked their college in the northeastern state of Yobe last Monday.

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Dozens of Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram released

Boko Haram militants have released dozens of schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, officials said today.

Monday, May 1, 2017

FAO, WFP warn against ignoring famine alarm in Yemen, Africa

FAO, WFP warn against ignoring famine alarm in Yemen, Africa
The leaders of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) called on the international community to urgently step up action to prevent further hunger deaths in four countries stalked by famine: north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Red Cross Warns on Mass Hunger in Yemen, Somalia

The world has got just three to four months to save millions of people in Yemen and Somalia from starvation, as drought and war wreck crops and block aid across the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Nigeria: la famine menace des milliers de personnes

Environ un million de personnes ayant fui les violences dans l'État de Borno, engendrées par le conflit entre le groupe armé Boko Haram et les forces armées nigérianes, vivent maintenant à Maiduguri, la plus grande ville du nord-est du pays.