Boko Haram still holds territory
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...
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UPDATE: Hundreds killed in Nigeria attacks
...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
...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?
...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
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
...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
...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
...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
...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
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...