Authorities in Belarus say the migrant camp on the border with Poland has been cleared, and its people have now been moved to a nearby shelter. Meanwhile, several hundred have been repatriated to Iraq, after giving up any hope of reaching (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that the war in Tigray has put Ethiopia on a "path to destruction" that could reverberate throughout east Africa, telling CNN that the country's leader, Abiy Ahmed, must fulfill "his responsibility" (...)
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria received Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan at the Presidential Palace here on Tuesday.
During the audience, Prince Faisal conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) launched technical assistance for the development of the call and monitoring center at the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency, as part of the KSrelief's strategy aimed at raising the (...)
Coronavirus deaths in Africa rose rapidly over the past month, as fatalities surged by 80 percent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has said.
WHO's Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, said (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 7-14 July 2021, KSrelief's medical team examined 694 (...)
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 — some 161 million more than for 2019 — the UN Secretary-General said on Monday; "new, tragic data", which indicates the world is "tremendously off track" to achieve the (...)
At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police.
Officials from the school in Kaduna's Chikun (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 22-29 June 2021, KSrelief's medical (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) contributed to the Initiative for Living and Livelihood Fund for Rehabilitating Watari Dam, Kano, Nigeria, in collaboration with a number of donors.
The initiative aims at enabling the (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Over the past two days, KSrelief's medical team examined (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) on Sunday concluded a voluntary medical campaign against blindness in Nigeria for 2021.
The medical team, during the campaign, examined 6,051 cases and performed 810 surgeries, in addition to (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in cooperation with Al-Basar International Foundation, conducted during the third day of the medical campaign to combat blindness in Nigeria 152 surgeries, examined 1,006 patients, (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in cooperation with Al Basar International Foundation, have conducted as many as 155 surgeries, during the second day of its campaign, which included also examining 990 patients and (...)
The Voluntary Medical Team of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) participating in the campaign to combat blindness and related diseases from 6 to 13 June 2021, in the Republic of Nigeria has examined 1,295 cases and performed (...)
The Nigerian government says it has "indefinitely suspended" Twitter's operations in the country, the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement on Friday.
"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the (...)
Students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot at and abducted on Sunday by a group of "armed bandits," state police said in a statement.
At least one person is confirmed to have been killed (...)
When Nigerian Blessing Ojukwu became pregnant after she was raped, her family disowned her. She was forced to live with her abuser, who continued to attack her.
Now, a UN-backed initiative is giving her, and others in similar situations, a chance to (...)
Scores of people are missing and feared dead after an overloaded boat capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday with around 180 passengers on board, government authorities said.
The incident took place in the Niger River (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 8,725 Ramadan food baskets to needy families and displaced people in Nigeria, benefiting 52,350 individuals.
This falls within the framework of projects being implemented by (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has delivered special medical aid to health authorities in Nigeria to enhance the efforts in combating Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The aid included 24 ventilators 25,000 sterile surgical (...)
A spate of clashes involving government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and threatened humanitarian assistance, as armed groups go "house-to-house" hunting for aid workers, the UN said on (...)
At least one person has been shot dead and two others injured as hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls who had been released were reunited with their parents, eyewitnesses said.
The girls were abducted on Friday by armed men who raided their (...)
Dozens of students were feared abducted after armed men raided a state-run school in Niger state, in Nigeria's Middle Belt region early Wednesday. One student was killed during the abduction, a resident said.
The gunmen, wearing military fatigues (...)
Nigerian police said on Sunday 80 students of a local Islamic school were rescued after their abduction by suspected bandits in the northwestern state of Katsina.
State police spokesperson Gambo Isah said in a statement that security operatives on (...)
