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Nigerian girl, 17, escapes month in locked room after abduction and forcible conversion to Islam

March 25, 2020 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Minorities, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

According to the UN, over 4,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram alone in northeast Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

According to the UN in 2018, more than 4,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram alone in NE Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) Sadiya Amos, aged 17,...

UN Sec. General’s “biggest data gap in the world” affects persecuted Christian women

March 6, 2020 Global News -- No Particular Country Converts, Human rights, Kidnapping, Minorities, Religious freedom, Women

Women to women conference in Ethiopia, February 2018.

...Boko Haram on 19 February 2018. (Photo from family) For example, Nigerian teenager Leah Sharibu is the only one of 110 girls kidnapped 2 years ago to remain with her...

Nigeria: ‘Government is Boko Haram but without bomb’, says church leader

January 20, 2020 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic State West Africa Province, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

A mother sits mourning the death of her husband after Boko Haram attacks at Dalori village on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria on 31 January 2016. (Photo: Getty Images)

...government and Boko Haram is Boko Haram is holding a bomb,” the bishop said, adding the Buhari government had created the environment in which Islamist groups like Boko Haram could...

Violent Islamist militancy spreads into weak states across sub-Saharan Africa

January 15, 2020 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria

Nigerien soldiers on patrol near the town of Arlit, north-central Niger. (Photo: Getty)

...in the far north – still a stronghold of Boko Haram – in the north-west and in the south-west, where an Anglophone insurgency against Francophone majority rule is growing. It...

From sub-Saharan Africa to China, Christians experience ‘high’ levels of persecution

January 15, 2020 Global News -- No Particular Country BJP, Boko Haram, Churches, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Minorities, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Watch List

Poster memorials and crosses for Christians who died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 2019

...due mainly to violent Fulani militants attacking Christian communities and churches, as well as to Boko Haram and a range of armed criminal groups who kill, kidnap and rape with...

Nigeria: Violence continues but government in denial, church leaders say

July 25, 2019 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Genocide, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

A village in northern Nigeria after an attack by Fulani militants. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...a handle’ on the situation. Handing the country over to the likes of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency and Fulani militants “may lead to planned reprisal attacks against Fulanis, which...

Burkina Faso church leader killed by Islamists: ‘I’d rather die than leave my community’

May 2, 2019 Burkina Faso Assemblies of God, Burkina Faso, Djibo, IDPs, Islamic extremism, Islamic State West Africa Province, Ken Elliott, Sahel, Sirgadji, Soum, West Africa

An outdoor church outside a home western Burkina Faso.(Photo: CIF Action via Flickr; CC 2.0)

...numerous splinter groups such as Islamic State West Africa Province, a deadly group which broke away from Nigeria’s Boko Haram, and which also enslaves Christian women and girls as an...

5 years on, 112 Chibok girls missing – but they are just ‘tip of the iceberg’

April 12, 2019 Nigeria Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, Women

Dr Rebecca Dali talks of 5th anniversary of Chibok girls' kidnap, from Abuja, Nigeria

...find and free the girls. In January 2016, the Nigerian military were reported to have freed 1,000 women held captive by Boko Haram, – but none of them were Chibok...

Nigeria: ‘Dangerous speech and polarising narratives’ fuel Middle Belt violence – report

February 21, 2019 Nigeria Boko Haram, Elections, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Nigeria

Attacks from Fulani herders against Christians in the Middle Belt have been on the increase, [caption id="attachment_37447" align="aligncenter" width="770"]Attacks from Fulani herders against Christians in the Middle Belt have been on the increase, displacing thousands of people. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) Attacks from Fulani herders against Christians in the Middle Belt have been on the increase and the conflict has become the country’s gravest security challenge. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...“local disputes over land and cattle” no longer seems adequate. Violence attributed to Fulani militants is believed to have claimed six times more lives than Boko Haram in recent years....

As Nigeria votes, family and churches urge candidates to remember Christian teen Leah Sharibu

February 21, 2019 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women, Yobe

Leah Sharibu was 14 when she was abducted, Feb 19, 2018

Leah Sharibu was 14 when she was abducted by Boko Haram exactly one year ago. (Photo: Family) One year since the Christian teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted from her boarding...

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