A burned church in a village in Southern Kaduna, northern Nigeria, where this year alone hundreds of people have been killed in violence caused by Boko Haram and in clashes...
...now report that ongoing violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen have attacked predominantly Christian farmers, has killed more people than Boko Haram. Now, after a period...
...attacks in Adamawa, particularly in Numan and its surroundings, are clearly linked to the government’s failure to tackle previous atrocities. The conflict has occurred on the backdrop of Boko Haram...
Boko Haram survivor Esther*, holding her daughter Rebecca in her arms. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) As Islamic extremist group Boko Haram continues to hold young women captive in West Africa,...
...January 2014 and August 2017. Benue is a predominantly Christian state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where thousands of Christians have lost their lives in recent years in non-Boko Haram related...
...a roundtable in 2013, “they agreed that violence against women is haram (forbidden) – Christians are way more progressive than Muslims on this,” Ms Masri added. One factor in this...
...facilitating characteristics of the country in which the [Boko Haram] insurgency has come to operate so effectively”. It showed that the abduction of Christian girls was common practice long before...
The violence across the Middle Belt has been responsible for more deaths than Boko Haram (World Watch Monitor) A law imposing a ban on cattle grazing has come into force...
...known if the children have been reunited with their mother yet. The children were kidnapped from Moskota village during a night raid carried out by Boko Haram on 17 August,...
Street scene in Zinder, Niger’s second biggest town, where thousands of people fled to after Boko Haram first attacked Diffa in February 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) The teenage daughter...