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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.

Strike paralyses health services

KANO, 25 September 2009 (IRIN) – A health worker strike, in place since 25 June, in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa state has paralysed public hospitals, forcing patients to forgo medical treatment.

Officials fear cholera resurgence in north

KANO, 16 September 2009 (IRIN) – Floods in northern Nigeria Adamawa state have left over 2,000 people displaced, many of them with no access to clean drinking water, leaving officials worried about a potential cholera outbreak.