Another mass kidnapping and killing in Nigeria
Boko Haram is suspected to have killed at least 30 people and kidnapped as many as 200 women and children in an attack on a Nigerian village. A witness told...
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Boko Haram may disenfranchise 1.5m Nigerian voters
...potentially denying a vote to many non-Muslim voters, Boko Haram may be close to achieving its goal of establishing Islamic rule in a part of northern Nigeria. Boko Haram’s offensive...
Jihad not a war against Christians?
...followed by Boko Haram which killed 786 in Nigeria in the same month. Neumann added that Islamic State ‘has rivalled – if not replaced – Al-Qaeda as the leader of...
Boko Haram abducts 20 more Nigerian women
According to SaharaReporters, a New-York based news agency, insurgents belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram last Wednesday “abducted more than 20 women, most of them young girls, in Lassa,...
Nigerian Christian fundraiser for terror victims
...of emergency due to the Boko Haram insurgency. The President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, emphasized the need for the gesture, saying ‘we cannot stay aloof’. The Association, which claims...
Northern Christians accuse government of neglect as Boko Haram continue its killing spree
...affected by the insurgency. A day before, suspected Boko Haram militants disguised as traders attacked Damasak town, near the Niger border, killing at least 48. The demonstrators, from the northern...
Death sentence for Pakistan woman turned on technicality
...for one of them. One of her co-workers objected that the mere touch of a Christian had made the water haram, or religiously forbidden for Muslims. Noreen was told to...
Nigergian army back in control of Chibok
...push back Boko Haram militants two days after their attack, but added that the town is still not safe for residents to return. “At the moment Boko Haram are out...
Boko Haram seize Chibok
Boko Haram militants have seized Chibok, the Nigerian town where they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls earlier this year. Fleeing residents told the BBC that militants attacked and took control...
Understand concept of ‘infidel’ to understand risks of Islamic radicalization
...recent memory, the perpetrators of such attacks are using and citing religion to justify their violence. From Boko Haram, to the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, to the...