internally displaced Archives

Leave no survivor behind: Rethinking solutions for Internally Displaced Persons

On January 30, 202011:26 amIn Newsby Nwafor

We cannot make the same mistakes of assuming that the answers we derive for our most vulnerable members of society are the solutions they require; because often, our own answers are reductive.

Benue COVID-19 Action Committee repatriates 58 suspected trafficked persons

41 die in one of Benue’s Internally Displaced Persons camps

On January 14, 20205:09 pmIn Newsby David O Royal

By Peter Duru Indications emerged Tuesday that over 41 inmates at the Abagena Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in the outskirts of Makurdi town lost their lives since the camp was opened in 2018. The camp which is one of the 22 official and unofficial camps housing persons displaced by herdsmen crisis in the state
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Ten million people internally displaced by conflict in 2018: monitors

On May 11, 20198:59 amIn Newsby Emmanuel Okogba

Conflict forced more than 10 million people to flee their homes to live elsewhere within their own country last year, bringing the total number of people internally displaced by violence to a record high, monitors said Friday.

Over 2.1m displaced by Boko Haram, says IOM

On September 4, 20151:10 pmIn Newsby vanguard

Over 2.1 million people are internally displaced in northeast Nigeria after a spike in a six-year insurgency by the Boko Haram group, the International Organization for Migration said Friday, revising a previous figure of 1.5 million.