Clashes in Cameroon’s north displace over 100,000 – UN agency
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Clashes between herders, fishermen and farmers in the far north of Cameroon have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes in the past two weeks, creating a humanitarian emergency, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. Cameroonians who fled deadly intercommunal violence between Arab Choa herders and Mousgoum and Massa […]
No safe haven for girls in crisis-hit Lake Chad region – survey
Dakar, LiberiaThomson Reuters Foundation Teenage girls living in Africa’s insurgency-hit Lake Chad region have no safe haven from the violence, with beatings and abuse happening in their homes, on the streets and at school, a survey found on Monday. The region, which takes in parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, is suffering from a […]
‘We stand no chance of ending hunger’ without peace, UN says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Conflict is worsening global starvation, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as it called for greater peacebuilding efforts to end hunger for almost 500 million people living in war zones. In the world’s eight hungriest countries, at least one in four people do not have enough to eat, two UN agencies said […]
“Alarming” surge in number of children used in bomb attacks by Boko Haram, says UNICEF
This year has seen an “alarming surge” in the use of children, in particular girls, to carry out violent attacks by terror group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region, UNICEF has warned. A report launched by the organisation this week, Silent Shame: Bringing out the voices of children caught in the Lake Chad crisis, shows […]