Tag: Nigeria

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

How to rebuild Nigeria after Boko Haram?

May 17, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Education, Kidnapping, Nigeria

A security summit of regional and Western powers in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has pledged a “global approach” comprising military and developmental efforts to end the threat posed by Boko Haram. Recent military operations by Nigeria and regional forces have led to territorial gains and revealed the scale of devastation. They . . . Read More

US religious-freedom report urges government to add 7 countries to worst-offenders list

May 2, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, BJP, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Europe, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Taliban, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

What is happening? The primary US government agency on global religious freedom issued its annual report 2 May. It says “religious freedom abroad has been under serious and sustained assault” during the past year, and says America should add seven countries to its list of worst offenders: Central African Republic . . . Read More

Female bomber ‘signature’ weapon of Boko Haram

April 21, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Damasak, Nigeria, Rape, Women

A new report reveals that the kidnapping of 270 Chibok girls in 2014 and the 400 women and children taken from Damasak in Nigeria last year are not isolated cases. It shows Boko Haram’s strategy aimed at using women – some as young as 10 – as suicide bombers in . . . Read More

Boko Haram will leave legacy of ‘hatred’

April 18, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Nigeria

Boko Haram’s terror tactics in north-eastern Nigeria have led to increasing mistrust between Christians and Muslims, according to . Long after Boko Haram has gone, she said, the insurgents will leave behind in some communities ‘a dense cloud of internecine hatred and suspicion’. Nwaubani visited Michika in the north-eastern state . . . Read More

Some Chibok girls alive, but families’ agony goes on

April 14, 2016 Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria, Stephen Davis, Trauma

The #BringBackOurGirls campaign to raise awareness of the kidnappings is launched in Nigeria, 2014World Watch Monitor Today (14 April) marks two years since the abduction of more than 200 girls from Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. A video now released by the radical Islamist group, Boko . . . Read More

Nigeria: 44 dead in Taraba after ‘Fulani attack’

April 12, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Genocide, Nigeria, Taraba

Dozens are feared killed in fresh attacks on Monday 11 April, 2016, by suspected Fulani militants on several villages in the Gashak area of the Nigerian central state of Taraba. Local media report that at least 44 have been killed (though the exact number of casualties is yet to be . . . Read More

Agatu: over 10 villages still under Fulani siege

April 6, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Nasarawa, Nigeria

Nearly two months after the invasion of Agatu by Fulani herdsmen, more than 10 villages are still under siege by rampaging Fulani insurgents, according to Chief Elias Ekoyi Obekpa, traditional ruler of the Idoma tribe in Benue State, Nigeria. Several days of attacks in February’s final days killed hundreds of . . . Read More

Head of Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru arrested

April 4, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansaru, Boko Haram, Kogi, Lokoja, Nigeria

The leader of Ansaru jihadist group, a Boko Haram splinter group, known for kidnapping foreigners and attacks against Christians, has been arrested. A military spokesman said Khalid al-Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, capital of the central Nigerian state of Kogi. “Security agents made a breakthrough on Friday in the fight . . . Read More

Girl with explosives not a Chibok victim

March 30, 2016 Nigeria Chibok girls, Nigeria

On 29 March, World Watch Monitor that a teenage girl, detained in Cameroon when authorities discovered she was carrying explosives, claimed she was one of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped two years ago from her school in Chibok, Nigeria. Today, the that Nigerian officials say the girl is not a Chibok . . . Read More

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