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Boko Haram still holds territory

March 11, 2016 Nigeria Africa, African Union, Boko Haram, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, UN

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory claims, Boko Haram is still holding territory in northern Nigeria, said the head of the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). Gen. David Rodriguez’s assertion comes almost...

UPDATE: Hundreds killed in Nigeria attacks

March 11, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

...run. Dr Sunday Ochoche, our mission leader and Executive Director of the Victims’ Support Group, set up in July 2014 to support victims of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency in...

Nigeria churches unite for first time to address violence in north

February 22, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Churches, Samuel Dali, Trauma

...1999 election, took on the name Boko Haram and blew up into a military insurgency in 2009 under a new leader, Abubakar Shekau, the Open Doors report said. In 2014,...

Evangelicals targeted in Cameroon bomb attacks?

February 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nguetchewe, Union of Evangelical Churches

...and Christian leaders met recently in Mora – the base of the Multinational Joint Task Force fighting Boko Haram – and pledged to work together against the threat of Islamic...

Christian and Muslim leaders call for peace in Cameroon

February 4, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Maroua, Nigeria

A multi-faith gathering in Mora to discuss tolerance in the face of the threat from Boko Haram. (World Watch Monitor) Christian and Muslim leaders in northern Cameroon have reiterated their...

The war on Christianity in the Congo

February 3, 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Africa, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Trauma

...Somalia’s al-Shabaab, Nigeria’s Boko Haram, and al-Qaeda. A 2015 report to the UN Security Council, however, said investigators found “no credible evidence” of any links to foreign terorist groups. MDI...

Causes of Chibok kidnapping to be investigated

January 15, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

...The girls were taken from their dormitories by the Islamist Boko Haram militant sect, sparking global outrage and promises by several Western nations to help in a rescue, which were...

2016 World Watch List drawn from world headlines

January 13, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Bibles, BJP, Boko Haram, Central Asia, Charlie Hebdo, Churches, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kenya, Libya, Middle East, Mosul, Niger, Nigeria, Nineveh Plains, North Korea, Paris, Sub-Saharan Africa

...top 50 Learn more about: How the World Watch List is made Boko Haram “Islamic State and its affiliates took their barbarity across borders like never before: into Libya, Kenya,...

Australian Minister ‘confused’ over Islamic dogma

January 5, 2016 Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Quran, Saudi Arabia

...UN of Islamic states” – and is tasked with issuing authoritative rulings on religious matters. The IFA is based in Saudi Arabia. Last year the academy denounced Boko Haram’s kidnapping...

Q & A about parents of kidnapped Chibok girls

December 15, 2015 Nigeria

After spending time with parents of the girls Boko Haram abducted from the Chibok State Secondary School in April 2014, an employee for Open Doors International, which supports Christians under...

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