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Nigeria: Nigerians Seek Safety in Cameroon As Boko Haram Crisis Escalates
IRIN, 7 February 2019
A wave of increasingly sophisticated militant attacks in northeastern Nigeria has forced almost 60,000 people to flee since November, the largest number for more than two years,… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Corpses Were Lying On the Streets - Refugees Flee Boko Haram
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 February 2019
Seconds after glimpsing Boko Haram gunmen leap out of vehicles brandishing weapons in the town of Rann, Nigeria, Abdul, 45, rushed inside the medical clinic where he worked. Read more »
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UN News, 5 February 2019
An upsurge in violent attacks in crisis-riven north-east Nigeria has displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last three months, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday. Read more »
Nigeria's Boko Haram Violence Intensifies, Thousands Displaced
Since November 2018, there has been a steep increase in the number of people displaced in north-east Nigeria. At least 59,000 people, mainly women and children, have been forced to flee Boko Haram militants and other armed groups in Borno State, the heart of the displacement crisis.
Gubio Camp in Maiduguri has received 4,500 new arrivals since November 2018, many of them in recent weeks following an attack by non-state armed groups in Baga, near the shores of Lake Chad, in north-east Nigeria.
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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said that at least 30,000 people fled the Nigerian town of Rann amid fears of renewed attacks by Boko Haram militants. The ... Read more »
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The military had repeatedly denied that Boko Haram captured Baga after dislodging soldiers of the Nigeria military, including those of the Multi National Joint Task Force. But in ... Read more »
