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British Aid Worker Among 2 Shot Dead In Nigeria, 4 Tourists Abducted
Two people including a British aid worker have been shot dead and four tourists abducted in an attack by armed gunmen on a holiday resort in northwestern Nigeria, police said on Sunday.
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Boko Haram Homeless Face Housing Crisis As Rains Hit
Thousands of men, women and children made homeless by the Boko Haram insurgency risk disease because of lack of shelter in northeast Nigeria, aid workers said on Tuesday.
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Meningitis Outbreak In Nigeria Has Killed 813 People: Report
A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria has killed 813 people so far this year, the country's health minister said, as Africa's most populous country and aid organisations attempt to tackle the surge in infections.
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Abandoned Toddler Accused Of Witchcraft Starts School A Year After Rescue
In January last year, pictures of an abandoned toddler being rescued by aid workers in Nigeria went viral. The emaciated boy, barely two or three-years-old, had been living on the streets after he was accused of being a 'witch'. A year since Hope's rescue, Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven has re-created an old picture to celebrate him starting...
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10-Year-Old Girl Used As Human Bomb In Nigeria Attack
One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year's Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses and aid workers told AFP Sunday.
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UNICEF says 75,000 Children Could Die In Nigeria Hunger Crisis
Famine-like conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria could kill 75,000 children over the next year if they do not receive aid, the United Nations children's agency said on Thursday.
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UN in $174m Appeal for Nigeria's Boko Haram Refugees
The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday for $174 million in what it called "life-saving aid" for almost 200,000 Nigerians who have fled brutal attacks by Boko Haram jihadists.
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Post-Election Unrest Could Hamper Aid Efforts in Nigeria
Escalating violence in northeast Nigeria in recent months has uprooted hundreds of thousands and led to a "humanitarian crisis", aid agencies said on Thursday, amid fears that post-election unrest could hamper aid efforts.
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Boko Haram Targets Arabs in Reprisal for Chad Offensive
Boko Haram is carrying out ethnic reprisals against Arabic speakers in northern Nigeria, accusing them of aiding Chad's army fighting against the Islamist group, military officers and residents say.
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Talks Open in Niger on Regional Boko Haram Fight
A regional summit opened in Niger on Tuesday aimed at stopping Boko Haram as the Islamist insurgents step up attacks both inside Nigeria and in neighbouring countries.
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Niger Detains Minister Over Suspected Child Trafficking
Niger's agriculture minister was remanded in custody Saturday in a politically charged probe into suspected baby trafficking from neighbouring Nigeria, aides said.
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US Military Drones Being Used Over Nigeria
The Pentagon says the U.S. is using surveillance drones to aid in the search for the kidnapped Nigerian girls, and almost 300 Marines have been moved to a naval air station in Sicily in response to the growing unrest in Africa.
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No US Troops to Aid Search for Nigeria Schoolgirls: Defense Secretary
The United States has no plans to send troops to Nigeria to help recover hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
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5 Million Children in Africa's Sahel Face Acute Malnutrition: UN
Aid operations need urgent funding in north Africa's Sahel region where five million children face the prospect of acute malnutrition, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Wednesday.
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20 killed in sectarian violence in Nigeria: aid worker
At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP.
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British Aid Worker Among 2 Shot Dead In Nigeria, 4 Tourists Abducted
Two people including a British aid worker have been shot dead and four tourists abducted in an attack by armed gunmen on a holiday resort in northwestern Nigeria, police said on Sunday.
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Boko Haram Homeless Face Housing Crisis As Rains Hit
Thousands of men, women and children made homeless by the Boko Haram insurgency risk disease because of lack of shelter in northeast Nigeria, aid workers said on Tuesday.
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Meningitis Outbreak In Nigeria Has Killed 813 People: Report
A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria has killed 813 people so far this year, the country's health minister said, as Africa's most populous country and aid organisations attempt to tackle the surge in infections.
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Abandoned Toddler Accused Of Witchcraft Starts School A Year After Rescue
In January last year, pictures of an abandoned toddler being rescued by aid workers in Nigeria went viral. The emaciated boy, barely two or three-years-old, had been living on the streets after he was accused of being a 'witch'. A year since Hope's rescue, Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven has re-created an old picture to celebrate him starting...
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10-Year-Old Girl Used As Human Bomb In Nigeria Attack
One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year's Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses and aid workers told AFP Sunday.
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UNICEF says 75,000 Children Could Die In Nigeria Hunger Crisis
Famine-like conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria could kill 75,000 children over the next year if they do not receive aid, the United Nations children's agency said on Thursday.
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UN in $174m Appeal for Nigeria's Boko Haram Refugees
The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday for $174 million in what it called "life-saving aid" for almost 200,000 Nigerians who have fled brutal attacks by Boko Haram jihadists.
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Post-Election Unrest Could Hamper Aid Efforts in Nigeria
Escalating violence in northeast Nigeria in recent months has uprooted hundreds of thousands and led to a "humanitarian crisis", aid agencies said on Thursday, amid fears that post-election unrest could hamper aid efforts.
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Boko Haram Targets Arabs in Reprisal for Chad Offensive
Boko Haram is carrying out ethnic reprisals against Arabic speakers in northern Nigeria, accusing them of aiding Chad's army fighting against the Islamist group, military officers and residents say.
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Talks Open in Niger on Regional Boko Haram Fight
A regional summit opened in Niger on Tuesday aimed at stopping Boko Haram as the Islamist insurgents step up attacks both inside Nigeria and in neighbouring countries.
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Niger Detains Minister Over Suspected Child Trafficking
Niger's agriculture minister was remanded in custody Saturday in a politically charged probe into suspected baby trafficking from neighbouring Nigeria, aides said.
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US Military Drones Being Used Over Nigeria
The Pentagon says the U.S. is using surveillance drones to aid in the search for the kidnapped Nigerian girls, and almost 300 Marines have been moved to a naval air station in Sicily in response to the growing unrest in Africa.
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No US Troops to Aid Search for Nigeria Schoolgirls: Defense Secretary
The United States has no plans to send troops to Nigeria to help recover hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
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5 Million Children in Africa's Sahel Face Acute Malnutrition: UN
Aid operations need urgent funding in north Africa's Sahel region where five million children face the prospect of acute malnutrition, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Wednesday.
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20 killed in sectarian violence in Nigeria: aid worker
At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP.
