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Country policy and information notes (previously known as country information and guidance reports) are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
The notes also give information on asylum seekers countries of origin.
Added accessible versions of the notes on actors of protection and Islamist extremist groups in North East Nigeria.
Updated information on actors of protection.
Information on internal relocation updated.
Updated note on FGM.
Updated information on trafficking of women.
Added information on separatist groups in the South-East.
Updated information on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression published.
Updated country information note 'Medical treatment and healthcare'. Added HTML accessible version.
Updated country policy and information note: actors of protection, October 2021.
Updated country policy and information note: internal relocation for September 2021.
Removal of country background note: Nigeria, January 2020.
Replaced 'Boko Haram, Nigeria, January 2019' with 'Islamist extremist groups in North East Nigeria, July 2021'
Removed 'Biafran separatists' country policy and information note to review and update the country information content.
Replaced 'Biafran separatists' country policy and information note with 'Biafran secessionist groups'.
Added Country policy and information note Nigeria: Biafran separatists document.
Added Country policy and information note: medical and healthcare issues, Nigeria, January 2020.
Replaced Country background note: May 2019 with Country background note: January 2020.
Removed country information and guidance on women fearing gender-based harm or violence.
Information on prison conditions removed as it is now out of date.
Updated country policy and information note on female genital mutilation (FGM).
Updated country policy and information note on trafficking of women.
Replaced the country policy and information note: trafficking of women, Nigeria, July 2019.
Updated CPIN on trafficking of women.
Country background note published.