Tag: Boko Haram

Nigeria stops all transport in Borno

September 24, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Maiduguri, Nigeria

Cars, public transport, horses, donkeys and camels have been banned in Nigeria’s Borno state until the end of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Friday (25 Sept.), in an attempt to guard against another terrorist attack by Boko Haram. Fifty-four people were killed in an attack in Maiduguri, the . . . Read More

Boko Haram hits back in Maiduguri

September 22, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Maiduguri, Nigeria

At least 54 were killed and 90 injured in three bomb blasts in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria – the base of the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram – late on Sunday (20 Sept.). The city had been free from attacks for about a month. Last hit by a bomb at the . . . Read More

Boko Haram captives ‘lack skills’ to challenge orders

September 16, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Education, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Quran

A Nigerian wants to roll out counter-radicalisation initiatives to help young people, in case of kidnap, to resist the pressure to carry out orders from jihadists. In a BBC interview, Dr Fatima Akilu, head of the Nigerian government’s Countering Violent Extremism Programme, said she found the ability of former captives . . . Read More

Rape as weapon of war prolongs victims’ agony

September 14, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Children, Jizya, Nigeria, Rape, Women

For hundreds of women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, their ordeal did not end when they escaped, or when Nigerian soldiers rescued them and reunited them with their families. Instead of being admired for their bravery, many have become outcasts in their communities, stigmatised due to their perceived . . . Read More

Maiduguri ‘open’ again despite renewed Boko Haram activity

September 10, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

As General Buhari’s term in office as Nigeria’s President reached 100 days last Saturday, new figures show a surge to over 2.1m people displaced in the country’s six north-eastern states by Islamist violence. According to the Swiss-based International Organisation for Migration, a recent spike in attacks by Boko Haram insurgents . . . Read More

Cameroon must deal with religious radicalism

September 7, 2015 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Sufi, Wahhabism

The emergence of radical religious groups has dramatically changed the landscape in Cameroon, paving the way for religious intolerance, says the International Crisis Group (ICG), in a new report. Unlike its neighboring Nigeria and the Central African Republic, Cameroon has never experienced significant sectarian violence. However, ICG reports, the emergence . . . Read More

Islamists’ attacks mark Nigerian Buhari’s 100 days

September 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Lake Chad, Nigeria

On Sep 5, Nigeria’s President marked 100 days in office. According to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Boko Haram – to intimidate the new President – has intensified its attacks in Nigeria, and other Lake Chad Basin countries: Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The ISS says Boko Haram has carried . . . Read More

Attackers ‘search for Christians’ in Burkina Faso

August 26, 2015 Burkina Faso Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, West Africa

Suspected Islamic militants attacked near the West African nation’s border with Mali on Monday, wounding at least two people as they said they were targeting Christians, a witness and a security official said. Witness Alassane Hamidou told Associated Press that he had gone to a police station in Oursi about . . . Read More

IS ‘enshrines theology of rape’

August 14, 2015 Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Iraq, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Rape, Syria, West Africa

In 2014, following the kidnapping of 230 teenage girls from the mainly Christian enclave of Chibok in northern Nigeria, World Watch Monitor asked the question: How does Boko Haram justify its actions? A year later, The New York Times reports that the self-proclaimed Islamic State has “enshrined a theology of . . . Read More

Claim: Mistrust slows defeat of Boko Haram

August 12, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Pentecostals

Archbishop Idowu-Fearon, a Nigerian who is the new secretary-general of the Anglican Communion, that Christian leaders sceptical of Muslim motives have hurt the Nigerian campaign against the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram. He said they believed Muslim leaders supported the insurgency that has left thousands of Christians and Muslims dead. . . . Read More

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