Tag: Borno

Maiduguri trauma centre for Boko Haram victims

August 23, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Trauma

An Anglican church in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northern Nigeria, is building a clinic and trauma centre for the victims of Boko Haram attacks. The Bishop of the Maiduguri Diocese, the Most Rev. Emmanuel Mani, said the trauma centre will be open to people of all faiths. . . . 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

Nigeria considers giving Islamic appeals courts authority to take criminal cases

June 5, 2016 Nigeria Apostasy, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Hudud, Islamic extremism, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sharia, Yobe, Zamfara

A Sharia court in northern Nigeria.Courtesy of Open Doors The situation Nigeria’s National Assembly is considering a change to the country’s constitution that would expand the scope of jurisdiction of the country’s Islamic Sharia courts of appeal. Currently, the constitution limits those appellate courts to matters concerning family law. . . . Read More

1.3 million Christians displaced in N. Nigeria

May 31, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Agatu, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Yobe

Christians in northern Nigeria have paid a heavy price for Fulani herdshmen’s attacks and Boko Haram’s insurgency, which aims at implementing Sharia in Africa’s most populous country. An estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million others were displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned between 2006 and 2014, said . . . Read More

Second Chibok girl rescued, says Nigerian army

May 20, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Rape

Nigeria’s army says that it has rescued a second Chibok schoolgirl, two days after rescuing Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, the first of the 219 kidnapped girls to be found alive. “We are glad to state that among those rescued is a girl believed to be one of the Chibok Government . . . Read More

Woman who survived 5 weeks in Boko Haram camp speaks for first time

December 3, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Gwoza

Mercy, a 22-year-old woman from Borno State in north-east Nigeria, was abducted in June 2014 when Boko Haram overran the small town of Gwoza where she lived. She speaks here for the first time about her five weeks in captivity, where she was forced into a marriage, made to watch . . . Read More

Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

November 12, 2015 Abuja, Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, EYN, Genocide, Jos, Kaduna, Niger, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, UN, West Africa, Yobe, Yola

A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Lake Chad Basin region. In Europe, Syrian refugees with the means head for their country of choice, armies of aid . . . Read More

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

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

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