Tag: Boko Haram

In new report on religious freedom, US government turns its attention to blasphemy laws

August 10, 2016 Blasphemy, Boko Haram, Islamic State

The U.S. State Department on 10 Aug. released its 2015 International Religious Freedom Report. Required by U.S. law, the report contains an assessment of the conditions supporting, or suppressing, freedom of religion or belief in nearly 200 countries, excluding the United States. The annual document influences American diplomacy and assistance . . . Read More

Nigerian women lose husbands, homes and sometimes their minds to extremist violence

August 3, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Rebecca Dali, Trauma, Women

For a woman, the loss of her husband is the beginning of hardship for her and her children.CCEPI Forty-something Agnes, from Benue state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, was married to university lecturer John while still young; the couple had nine children. One morning in 2008 Agnes rose to . . . Read More

UN condemns ‘barbaric’ Boko Haram

July 28, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, IDPs, Lake Chad, Nigeria, UN, Yobe, Yola

The United Nations has accused the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram of “almost unimaginable” violence and brutality in Nigeria. Stephen O’Brien, its global humanitarian co-ordinator, said the militant group’s actions had forced millions to flee, and that more than nine million people in the Lake Chad region need humanitarian assistance. . . . Read More

Now hunger threatens Nigerian Christians who’ve fled Boko Haram

July 26, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Gwoza, Yola

Internally displaced people queuing for relief materials in Maiduguri, Borno State. Oct. 2014World Watch Monitor ”I met a child today who came to our clinic, looking very thin and definitely showing signs of hunger. His parents don’t live in our camp, but they brought him here for health checks…” . . . Read More

14 million affected by Nigeria conflict

July 14, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, IDPs, Nigeria, Yobe

Boko Haram’s insurgency has created a severe humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s north-eastern States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, says ACAPS, a Swiss-based research group, in its July . Over 14 million people are affected by conflict in these states and more than 10 million are in need, it says. Recent . . . Read More

UPDATE: Nigerian Christians told to ‘buckle up’ after preacher hacked to death

July 14, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Agatu, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Eunice Elisha, Fulani herdsmen, Gombe, Joseph Kurah, Nasarawa, Pentecostals

Mother of seven, Eunice Elisha, was murdered close to Nigeria’s capital, AbujaWorld Watch Monitor A female preacher was hacked to death in the early hours of 9 July near Nigeria’s capital. Eunice Elisha, a mother of seven, had gone out to preach as was usual, her husband, Olawale Elisha, . . . Read More

Pastor hacked to death in Nasarawa, C. Nigeria

July 5, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Joseph Kurah, Nasarawa

A pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Obi town, in Nigeria’s central State of Nasarawa, was killed by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen on 30 June. Rev. Joseph Kurah, accompanied by three other people, went to his farm at about 7pm to cut down trees for roofing wood. . . . Read More

Chibok girls’ life with Boko Haram

July 4, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

New details about the ordeal of the Chibok girls at the hands of Boko Haram have now emerged. A month ago, Amina Ali was the first of a group of 219 schoolgirls detained by the radical Islamist group to be rescued, prompting widespread coverage. Yakubu Nkeki, a spokesman for the . . . Read More

Nigerian Army claims it’s freed 5000 hostages

June 30, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Trauma

The Nigerian army says it has freed over 5,000 people held hostage by Boko Haram during an operation conducted on June 25, in the north-eastern of the country. Six militants killed and several others wounded, said the army spokesperson, Col. Sani Usman. Yet local media and NGOs have not been . . . Read More

‘Boko Haram is 100% a Muslim problem,’ says Sheikh

May 27, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Sultan of Sokoto

An influential Muslim cleric in Nigeria says the responsibility for dealing with the threat of Boko Haram lies with the Muslim community. “We [Muslims] have to understand that these people [Boko Haram] are from among us and that the society was not doing enough to bring these elements out,” Sheikh . . . Read More

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