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  • Chad: The forgotten people within a silent crisis

    16 October 2017

    More than 335,000 people continue to go hungry in the Lake Region of Chad – a place where only ten doctors are currently working and the international community has only funded $40m of a $121m humanitarian appeal.

  • Thousands returning to Nigeria face life-threatening lack of water

    2 June 2017

    Thousands of displaced persons returning from Cameroon to Nigeria are facing appalling conditions on arrival in Pulka, says Oxfam.

  • Fighting Boko Haram leaves far eastern Niger in a state of humanitarian emergency

    1 February 2017

    The devastation caused by Boko Haram and the military forces fighting them has plunged the people of far eastern Niger into a serious food crisis and has slashed their incomes to a tenth of what they were before.

  • Hunger stalks NE Nigeria as governments and donors to Lake Chad Basin crisis meet

    22 September 2016

    The ongoing conflict with Boko Haram in West Africa has pushed the number of people facing the threat of severe hunger to more than 6 million according to the latest assessments, say 15 humanitarian organizations. 

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