Displaced women receive food aid during a distribution at the Cathedral of Yola, state capital of Adamawa, on December 4, 2014. Niger is facing a massive influx of refugees from neighboring Nigeria, where people are fleeing deadly attacks by Takfiri Boko Haram militants, Press TV reports. According to the UN refugee agency, the displaced population is placing a heavy burden on Diffa, a remote and economically... 

Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in Maiduguri, the capital city of the northeastern Borno State. The Nigerian Senate has approved a request by the country’s president to extend emergency rule in the restive northeast for another six months. Lawmakers in Nigeria’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Thursday “to extend the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and...