Tag: EYN

‘I identify with Chibok parents, I too am a victim, I lost my son’ – UN award winner Rebecca Dali

August 21, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Rebecca Dali’s son Timothy, 18, left the house one evening, telling her he was going to visit his friend. “Are you sure?” she asked. It was immediately after the 2011 Nigerian elections, when inter-religious tensions were high. His friend lived across town, in an area where Timothy might be at . . . Read More

Nigerian woman wins UN award for work re-integrating Boko Haram victims

July 26, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, EYN, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

A Nigerian aid worker who works with victims of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the north-east has won the 2017 UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award. Dr Rebecca Dali, Executive Director of the Centre for Caring, Empowerment, and Peace Initiatives (CCEPI), won it because her centre is “at its best” in . . . Read More

1,000 days: 24th Chibok girl to be freed leaves 195 of 276 still missing

January 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN

Almost 1,000 days since she was kidnapped with 275 other schoolgirls from school dormitories in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, the 24th girl to be released from captivity has been found. Rakiya Abubakar Gali was discovered on 5 Jan. by the Army, who were questioning captured Boko Haram militants. She has a . . . Read More

Return of one Chibok girl raises Nigeria’s hopes for the 218 still missing

May 18, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, EYN, Nigeria

The first missing schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram militants two years ago has been rescued. Amina Ali Nkeki was found on Tuesday (17 May) in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. Her return has now raised the hope that the rest of the 218 missing girls may yet . . . 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

500 days since Chibok girls’ kidnap

August 27, 2015 Nigeria Abuja, Adamawa, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, IDPs, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Yobe

It’s been 500 days this week, since the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian village of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria. Since then, little has been heard of their fate: some are presumed to have been forced into marriages, or used . . . Read More

The West pays too little attention to Boko Haram

January 12, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, EYN, Jos, Kidnapping, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

The West pays too little attention to the threat of Boko Haram, according to the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, and it needs to show the kind of resolve the international community has shown over the attacks in Paris. Ignatius Kaigama was speaking to the BBC after the most recent Boko . . . Read More

Northern Christians accuse government of neglect as Boko Haram continue its killing spree

November 28, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Damasak, EYN, Gombe, IDPs, Islamic extremism, Jos, Nigeria, Yobe

Displaced Christians expressed their anger at the headquarters of the Church of the Brethren, or EYN Church, in Jos. Nov. 17World Watch Monitor Hundreds of Christians, displaced by the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s North, have been staging protests to express their anger over the government failure to protect them . . . Read More

Reports: Cease-fire with Boko Haram reached

October 17, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, EYN, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

Nigerian defense officials are saying that the government has reached a cease-fire agreement with Boko Haram, and that one of the terms of the deal is the release of 276 girls kidnapped in April from their school in the village of Chibok. Various news agencies inside and outside Nigeria have . . . Read More

‘How can I celebrate my birthday with a homeless, scattered family?’

October 3, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Gwoza, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Dr Rebecca Dali is the founder of Centre for Caring, Empowerment and Peace Initiatives.Courtesy of CCEPI Nigerian Rebecca Dali’s birthday is 1 October – the same date as her country’s Independence Day. But this year there was little time for celebration because her home town of Michika is overrun . . . Read More

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