Tag: Boko Haram

Chibok girls documentary airing tonight in the US

October 22, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, USA

A documentary showing the struggle of 103 Nigerian schoolgirls to reintegrate after their release from Boko Haram captivity will show tonight on the US satellite TV channel HBO. Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, a co-production of HBO, BBC2 and ARTE France, will be on at 7pm Central Time. The . . . Read More

Nigerian Islamist extremists kill aid worker ‘for work for Red Cross’, Christians ‘slaves for life’

October 16, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Justin Welby, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a faction of Boko Haram – the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) – has killed a second aid worker kidnapped eight months ago. It’s also threatened to keep 15-year-old Leah Sharibu and Alice Loksha Ngaddah, a Christian nurse with UNICEF and mother of two (a boy, five, and . . . Read More

Leah Sharibu’s mother pleads with Nigerian president as kidnappers threaten to kill daughter

October 4, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

The mother of the Christian girl detained by Boko Haram for over seven months has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to secure her daughter’s release. Leah Sharibu, 15, was one of 110 girls kidnapped on 19 February 2018 from a school in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Dapchi, in Yobe . . . Read More

Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met

September 18, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Islamic State, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, UN

Boko Haram has killed an aid worker and threatened to kill three other hostages, including the Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu. Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, 25, who worked as midwife with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), had been abducted on 1 March, alongside two other health workers, when . . . Read More

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

Attacks by members of the Islamic State group against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community “were among the deadliest acts of religious persecution” last year, according a new report presented in Washington DC yesterday, 13 September. “Fifty-three per cent of ISIS attacks against the public in 2017 were aimed at the Coptic . . . Read More

Kidnapped Nigerian Christian girl Leah Sharibu’s home burgled

September 12, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women, Yobe

Leah Sharibu, 14, was abducted by Boko Haram on 19 February 2018. (Photo from family)

The home of the kidnapped Nigerian teenager Leah Sharibu was broken into on Monday morning, 10 September. Leah’s mother was taking her only son to school, when thieves stole food and other belongings, including a generator, reports Nigerian news site The Cable. Leah, 15, was abducted from her school in . . . Read More

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram told to return to dangerous areas to vote

September 5, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, IDPs, Nigeria, Yobe

In northeast Nigeria, thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram’s attacks have been told to return back home, despite security concerns. Boko Haram’s nine-year insurgency has led to an acute crisis, described by the United Nations as one of the most severe in the world today, with more than 20,000 people killed, . . . Read More

Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to ‘#BringBackOurLeah’

September 3, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women, Yobe

The parents of the Nigerian Christian girl held by Boko Haram say they have renewed hope that she might safely return home after a short audio recording her kidnappers released last week. In the 35-second recording, Leah Sharibu is heard asking for help for her family and herself, calling on . . . Read More

Nigeria: Kidnapped Leah Sharibu calls on president for help

August 29, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Kidnapping, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women

Leah Sharibu, the Christian teenager abducted by an Islamist group in February, has asked Nigeria’s president to intervene and help facilitate her release. In a 35-second audio recording, obtained by Ahmad Salkida for Nigerian newspaper The Cable, she asks for help for her family and herself. “I also plead to . . . Read More

Nigeria denies paying ransom for Dapchi girls’ release from Boko Haram

August 20, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Dapchi, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, UN

Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen have between them claimed at least 26,000 lives in northeast Nigeria since 2009, says the UN, as Nigerian newspaper This Day reports. According to a UN representative in Nigeria, civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict, through widespread displacement, abuse and violations of . . . Read More

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