Tag: NIGERIA
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Refugees flee Boko Haram
Tens of thousands of Nigerian men women and children have found refuge in Cameroon as they flee Boko Haram attacks in their country. In Goura, North-East Cameroon, the United Nations have provided basic shelter, huma...
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Refugees flee Boko Haram
Tens of thousands of Nigerian men women and children have found refuge in Cameroon as they flee Boko Haram attacks in their country. In Goura, North-East Cameroon, the United Nations have provided basic shelter, huma...
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Service and Sacrifice: Thank You Nigerian Peacekeepers
Nigerian Peacekeepers pack up to leave after a successful UN Mission in Liberia and fifteen years of service in the country.
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Northeast Nigeria: Extremism and the Struggle to Rebuild
[21st Century, Episode 129] In north-eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, eight years into the insurgency by extremist group Boko Haram, the humanitarian crisis is one of the most severe in the world today. 8.5...
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Families flee from Boko Haram
United Nations - Attacks by Boko Haram have forced thousands of families to flee the violence in north-eastern Nigeria, seeking refuge in neighbouring Cameroon and Chad. Most have damaging memories of the carnage and...
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Nigeria: The Edge of Joy
The West African nation of Nigeria has the second highest number of maternal deaths in the world. More than thirty-six thousand women die here each year trying to have babies. But the country is beginning to fight bac...
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Nigeria: Blood Banks Save Lives
According to the United Nations Population Fund report one of the leading causes of maternal mortality is hemorrhaging. Lack of blood reservoirs, due to the HIV epidemic, has hindered health care professionals in Nige...