Tag: Boko Haram

Missing Chibok girls ‘raped almost daily’

August 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria, Rape, Stephen Davis, Women

Canon Stephen Davis, a special adviser to the President of Nigeria in the attempts to find and recover the Chibok girls, still missing since April, has returned to Australia and spoken to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He says he managed to smuggle out of the country footage of a handful . . . Read More

‘Future of Church in NE Nigeria also threatened’ says Chibok leader

August 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

Some Christian families displaced by violence in Yobe State, have moved to Jos. Nigeria, January 2014.World Watch Monitor Nigeria’s radical Islamist sect, responsible for the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Chibok in April, appears relentless in its fight for the establishment of an Islamic state in Africa’s most . . . Read More

Boko Haram overruns town, kills 100

August 11, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Gwoza, Katsina, Nigeria, Sabon Gari

Some of the displaced children in Gulak Adamawa state. Christians in Gulak are caring for about 300 children orphaned or separated from their parents because of Boko Haram attacks. May 22, 2014World Watch Monitor Suspected members of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram have taken over Gwoza, a major . . . Read More

Cameroon pastor among 25 killed as Deputy Prime Minister’s wife kidnapped

August 4, 2014 Cameroon Adamawa, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Far North, Kidnapping, Maroua, Nigeria, Ramadan, Yaoundé

At least 25 people were killed in Cameroon, among them a church leader, as militants carried out two attacks in the far north of Cameroon at the end of July. In one attack in the town of Kolofata, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister and her maid were kidnapped, . . . Read More

Kidnapped girls’ parents die as Chibok’s trauma rises

July 24, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Trauma

Chibok girls who managed to escape arriving at Nigeria’s State House to meet with Nigerian President Jonathan. Abuja, Nigeria; July 22, 2014Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman, Nigeria For the missing Nigerian girls kidnapped over 100 days ago, another trauma has emerged. Eleven of the group of grieving parents have died, . . . Read More

Chibok, 3 months later

July 14, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Islamic extremism, Jama'atu Nasril Islam, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Stephen Davis, Sultan of Sokoto

Three months to the day after more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped from their school in northeast Nigeria, headlines have been dominated by the visit of another teenager, 17 year old Pakistani Malala Yusufzai, to some of the missing girls’ families and the Nigerian President. But there is no . . . Read More

Q&A with EYN President Samuel Dali

July 14, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Samuel Dali

The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, known locally as Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria — or EYN Church — has been a direct target of Boko Haram attacks. Many of the families of the more than 200 girls kidnapped in April from their school in Chibok are members of EYN . . . Read More

50 killed in Nigerian church attacks

July 2, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, ECWA, Nigeria

Some of the parents of Chibok’s kidnapped girls. Chibok, Nigeria May 11, 2014World Watch Monitor Scores killed and five churches burnt down as militants raided Christian villages near Chibok, where nearly 300 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in April. On June 29, assailants on motorbikes and in . . . Read More

Nigeria largest displaced population in Africa

June 15, 2014 Nigeria Africa, Boko Haram, IDPs, Nigeria

A new report released last week by the Norwegian Refugee Council and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre shows that Nigeria now has the largest internally displaced population in Africa. It also says there are about 3.3 million displaced people in Nigeria, due to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Boko . . . Read More

Boko Haram suspects kill 200 more in Nigeria

June 6, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Stephen Davis

Parents, whose daughters were abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, receiving prayer messages of encouragement sent from Christians around the world; 18 May 2014.World Watch Monitor It is feared Boko Haram militants have killed at least 200 more people in a wave of attacks launched across Borno . . . Read More

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