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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

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

July 23, 2015 Niger Baptists, Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Churches, Islamic extremism, Mahamadou Issoufou, Niamey, Niger, Prophet Muhammad, Protestants, Trauma, West Africa, Zinder

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, the churches in the predominantly Muslim West African nation of Niger experienced the worst attacks in their history. On the weekend of 16-17 January, hundreds of angry Islamists attacked and ransacked dozens of properties and churches, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah . . . Read More

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 13, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country's northern and northeastern regions, stronghold of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram.

Boko Haram talks reopen, failed bomb-plot relief

July 13, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, ECWA, Jos, Nigeria, Stephen Davis

Fresh negotiations have started with Boko Haram to release more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, a Nigerian human rights activist told Reuters. Fred Eno said others had begun independent negotiations with the Islamist group but did not reveal who the ‘others’ were. The Nigerian government says it has no knowledge of . . . Read More

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 12, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, West Africa

March 2014 attacks in Kaduna state, in central Nigeria, left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country’s . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

Killings escalate in Nigeria

July 6, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Churches, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Yobe

The suicide bombing of a church in Nigeria on Sunday caps a week of killings that has left over 200 people dead, reports the BBC. In the first incident six worshippers were killed as they were entering a church in Potiskum in the north-east area where until recently Boko Haram . . . Read More

Chibok girls ‘forced to kill’ for Boko Haram

June 30, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Children, Genocide, Nigeria

Some of the kidnapped Chibok girls have been forced to join Boko Haram and carry out killings, the BBC has been told. Witnesses who escaped from the same camps that were holding some of the Chibok girls said they have been brainwashed and are being used to terrorise other captives . . . Read More

Buhari takes office after election ‘miracle’

May 29, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in today (May 29) as the new President of Nigeria, two months after he became the first opposition leader to win an election. On March 28, Buhari, a former general, defeated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by a 54-46 margin – the first time the opposition had . . . 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

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Tag: Boko Haram

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

Boko Haram talks reopen, failed bomb-plot relief

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

Killings escalate in Nigeria

Chibok girls ‘forced to kill’ for Boko Haram

Buhari takes office after election ‘miracle’

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

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