Tag: Boko Haram

Good Friday marks 3 years of agony for Chibok parents

April 13, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari

For the families of the 195 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitories three years ago tomorrow (14 April 2014), grief and despair have been compounded by fear, as the perpetrators of their agony continue to terrorise their town and carry out further abductions with impunity. Since Boko Haram jihadists abducted . . . Read More

Unicef: Boko Haram increasing use of child suicide bombers

April 13, 2017 Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, Children, New York, Niger, Nigeria, West Africa

As it torments West Africa, Boko Haram is increasingly turning to children to carry out its crimes. One of every five suicide bombers deployed by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, usually a girl, according to a report released on Tuesday (11 April) by Unicef. . . . Read More

Persecution of Christians ‘still not taken seriously’

April 12, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Batnaya, Boko Haram, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Nigeria, North Africa, Syria

Christians are the “most harassed religious minority in the world” but their oppression is largely under-reported in the West.

Following the Palm Sunday bomb attacks on two Egyptian churches, Ewelina Ochab, writing for Forbes, suggests that it’s time to be more proactive in response to the persecution of Christians – “the most persecuted religious group in the world”. “The situation [for Christians] has not improved [in] recent years,” she writes. . . . Read More

22 girls and women kidnapped as Boko Haram strikes again in north-east Nigeria

April 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Nigeria

Boko Haram has abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in north-east Nigeria, residents and vigilantes say. In the first attack on 30 March, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near the border with Cameroon, where they kidnapped 18 girls. In the second incident, outside the village . . . Read More

Northeast Nigeria ‘greatest crisis on the African continent’, says UN

March 27, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Gwoza, IDPs, Yobe, Yola

The UN has described the unfolding disaster in north-eastern Nigeria as the “greatest crisis on the continent” – the full extent of which has only been revealed as extremist militant group Boko Haram is pushed back. The UN estimated in December that 75,000 children are at risk of dying of . . . Read More

Nigeria: Benue death toll 60 over past 10 days, admits police chief

March 22, 2017 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

”It all started on Friday when the herdsmen forcefully entered our village to graze on farmland, but were resisted by our youths. They left – only to mobilise and storm our village in their numbers, shooting sporadically and chasing everyone from their houses.” A survivor of a recent Fulani herdsmen’s . . . Read More

Chibok girl: ‘Don’t forget us’

March 22, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria

A schoolgirl who escaped from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has called on the international community not to forget those still in captivity. The abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Chibok in April 2014 by Islamist militants caused a global outcry – and prompted campaigns about girls’ . . . Read More

‘Double suffering’ when women targeted not only for gender, but also religion

March 8, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Islamic State, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trauma, Women

On International Women’s Day, one statistic you may not hear much is that 83% of global women identify with a religious faith. Pew Research asked people in 84 countries how often they pray; in half of them, substantially more women than men say they pray on a daily basis. And . . . Read More

Pledges to avert famine for 3m in Lake Chad region

February 28, 2017 Boko Haram, Borno, Lake Chad, Nigeria, Norway, Somalia, UN, Yemen

Only a third of the $1.5bn in emergency funding sought by the UN this year to prevent a famine in parts of northern Nigeria and neighbouring areas of the Lake Chad region has been raised at a summit in Oslo. Aid agencies must get food to almost 3 million by . . . Read More

65,000 children freed from armed groups in 10 years

February 23, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Chad, Children, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Paris, South Sudan

At least 65,000 children have been released from armed forces and armed groups in the past 10 years, UNICEF said as leaders from around the world gathered in Paris on 21 Feb. to mark the anniversary of the Paris Commitments to end the use of children in conflict. “Ten years . . . Read More

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