Tag: Adamawa

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS

November 20, 2015 Adamawa, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Denmark, Education, Gombe, Hamas, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Kano, Lake Chad, London, Maiduguri, Middle East, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria, Paris, Quran, Terrorism, UN

Boko Haram was the world’s deadliest terror group in 2014, ahead of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, according to a report released on 18 Nov. by the Institute of Economics & Peace. It was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014, more than any other terrorist group in the world, according to the Global . . . Read More

Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

November 12, 2015 Abuja, Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, EYN, Genocide, Jos, Kaduna, Niger, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, UN, West Africa, Yobe, Yola

A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Lake Chad Basin region. In Europe, Syrian refugees with the means head for their country of choice, armies of aid . . . Read More

500 days since Chibok girls’ kidnap

August 27, 2015 Nigeria Abuja, Adamawa, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, IDPs, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Yobe

It’s been 500 days this week, since the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian village of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria. Since then, little has been heard of their fate: some are presumed to have been forced into marriages, or used . . . Read More

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

August 2, 2015 Adamawa, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Kidnapping, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, N'Djamena, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Refugees, West Africa

On 25 July, 20 people were killed when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in a crowded bar in Maroua, northern Cameroon.World Watch Monitor The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has intensified its suicide bombing attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in recent weeks. On Friday (31 July) a . . . Read More

5,000 killed, 100,000 displaced by Boko Haram

May 14, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Catholics, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Yobe

A new report has highlighted the scope of Boko Haram’s attacks against Christians in north-east Nigeria. More than 5,000 Catholics have been killed, 100,000 displaced and 350 churches attacked – “a good number of them destroyed more than once” – according to the ‘Situation Report’ from the Diocese of Maiduguri, . . . Read More

Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too

March 20, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Zamfara

The whole world has heard of the Chibok abduction: the 276 girls, predominantly Christians, kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria in April 2014. There are 220 still missing. But the publicity surrounding this serves to hide a more widespread persecution of Christians in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Nigeria . . . Read More

Northern Christians accuse government of neglect as Boko Haram continue its killing spree

November 28, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Damasak, EYN, Gombe, IDPs, Islamic extremism, Jos, Nigeria, Yobe

Displaced Christians expressed their anger at the headquarters of the Church of the Brethren, or EYN Church, in Jos. Nov. 17World Watch Monitor Hundreds of Christians, displaced by the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s North, have been staging protests to express their anger over the government failure to protect them . . . Read More

Several Nigerians killed immediatly after truce

October 20, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Nigeria

Dozens have been killed in at least five attacks in Adamawa state soon after the Nigerian government said they reached a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram on Friday. The Islamist extremist group has not yet claimed responsibility, but its militants are the assumed perpetrators. One of the conditions of the . . . Read More

Reports: Cease-fire with Boko Haram reached

October 17, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, EYN, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

Nigerian defense officials are saying that the government has reached a cease-fire agreement with Boko Haram, and that one of the terms of the deal is the release of 276 girls kidnapped in April from their school in the village of Chibok. Various news agencies inside and outside Nigeria have . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians: ‘We are on the run’

September 16, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Stephen Davis, Sunni, Yobe

What ISIS has done in Iraq, Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria, a Nigerian cleric says. ”The news is really bad. When they attacked our hometown, we decided to vacate the place. In Michika and surrounding areas, soldiers were running away. Some of them were killed or wounded and lot . . . Read More

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