Borno Government Reopens IDP Camps As Maiduguri Faces Severe Flooding
On Sept. 13 1994, Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria was devastated by a catastrophic flood that claimed numerous lives and destroyed homes and infrastructure. Today, exactly 30…
Neglected Elderly Women Sleep On The Streets After IDP Camp’s Closure In Borno
One morning about a year ago, when government officials arrived at the Kawal Maila makeshift camp to distribute relocation notices, the elderly women were absent.…
Hardship Worsens As Fire Engulfs IDP Camp In North East Nigeria
On Tuesday, March 12, a fire outbreak at the Muna Kumburi displacement camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, North East Nigeria, destroyed 3200…
Children Go Missing In Benue IDP Camp
Janet Mfanyi’s little boy was the first child to be taken. Since then, she has been besieged by a combination of sadness and loneliness that…
Closure Of Borno IDP Camps Forcing More Children Out Of School
Young Bintu Yarima’s education came to a halt nine years ago when Boko Haram occupied her hometown, a place called Ala in the Marte area…
More than 40 killed in IDP camp attack in DR Congo’s Ituri | News
CODECO fighters blamed for the attack on camp housing internally displaced persons in Ituri province. More than 40 people have been killed in an attack…
Fire Guts IDP Camp In Maiduguri
About 200 thatched huts that house internally displaced persons (IDPs) were, on Monday, Feb. 6, razed in another fire outbreak at Muna Alamdari IDP camp…
2023: Examining Nigeria Electoral Body’s Plan To Conduct Election In IDP Camps
Voters from almost three-quarters of Borno’s Local Government Areas will cast their ballots in the forthcoming elections in some form of displaced people’s camp or…
IDP Camps Close But No End To ‘Camp Life’ For Many Displaced People
There was a bit of buzz at the Gubio displacement camp in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, on Thursday, Dec. 1, as government officials supervised the facility’s…