Tolerance.ca
Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.
Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

UN Seeks $174M to Support Refugees Fleeing Boko Haram

The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday to raise slightly over $174 million to support refugees who have fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon to escape northern Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. Boko Haram fighters have killed thousands of people in their six-year bid to create an Islamist emirate in northeastern Nigeria. Though a military campaign by Nigeria and its neighbors has driven Boko Haram out of many positions it previously held, the U.N. still expects...


Read complete article

© Voice of America -
Subscribe to Tolerance.ca


Follow us on ...
Facebook Twitter