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Aid agencies staggered by IDP numbers

KANO, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos.

Our lives will never be the same again

KANO, 22 January 2010 (IRIN) – In Kuru Karama village, 30km from Nigeria’s central city of Jos, only four of some 3,000 residents remain; the rest have fled or been killed, said village chief Umar Baza. Every home has been destroyed.