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German pastor tells of terrible suffering Nigerian Christians experience at hands of Boko Haram

April 20, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Islamic extremism

...victims of Boko Haram. Renate Ellmenreich used to teach literacy classes in the country, but returned home in 1999 after her husband died. However, speaking on the BBC World Service’s...

Good Friday marks 3 years of agony for Chibok parents

April 13, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari

...with impunity. Since Boko Haram jihadists abducted 276 girls from their secondary school in the town of Chibok, in the north-eastern state of Borno, some 23 parents have now died...

Unicef: Boko Haram increasing use of child suicide bombers

April 13, 2017 Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, Children, New York, Niger, Nigeria, West Africa

More than 1.3 million children have been forced from their homes by Boko Haram, says Unicef. Photo: World Watch Monitor As it torments West Africa, Boko Haram is increasingly turning...

Persecution of Christians ‘still not taken seriously’

April 12, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Batnaya, Boko Haram, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Nigeria, North Africa, Syria

Christians are the “most harassed religious minority in the world” but their oppression is largely under-reported in the West.

...people in the world? Until there are none left in Iraq or Syria? Until Boko Haram wipes them out of Nigeria and Hindu nationalists completely ban them from Indian society?”...

22 girls and women kidnapped as Boko Haram strikes again in north-east Nigeria

April 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Nigeria

...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 advent of Boko Haram and...

Northeast Nigeria ‘greatest crisis on the African continent’, says UN

March 27, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Gwoza, IDPs, Yobe, Yola

...crisis on the continent” – the full extent of which has only been revealed as extremist militant group Boko Haram is pushed back. The UN estimated in December that 75,000...

Nigeria: Benue death toll 60 over past 10 days, admits police chief

March 22, 2017 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

...in sight. By the time the villagers realised, about ten people had been killed; several others were missing. Others had to flee to the neighbouring Gboko Local Government Area. Mallam...

Chibok girl: ‘Don’t forget us’

March 22, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria

Joy and tears as parents reunite with the 21 released Chibok schoolgirls, Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 2016. Photo: Segun Adeyemi A schoolgirl who escaped from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has...

Adamawa state

March 13, 2017 Nigeria

...and Yobe states, where Boko Haram concentrated its activity. Northern Nigeria is home to about 30 million Christians, who form the largest minority religion in this predominantly Muslim area. According...

‘Double suffering’ when women targeted not only for gender, but also religion

March 8, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Islamic State, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trauma, Women

...have been raped and murdered by Buddhist Burmese Army soldiers. ISIS abducted and abused many Christians and Yazidi women, just as Boko Haram is doing with Christians. And records show...

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