Tag: Nigeria

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

September 3, 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 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

Nigerian church leaders, families continue to die; US top diplomat blames ‘climate of impunity’

August 29, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

The acting US ambassador to Nigeria has reiterated the call of his government to the Nigerian authorities to stop ongoing killings in the Middle Belt and northeast of the country. Violence attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen reached a record high this year, with more than 1,800 deaths from January 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

What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?

August 9, 2018 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

The ongoing deadly clashes between the nomadic, mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen and the predominantly Christian farming communities of Nigeria’s Middle Belt are often referred to in the mainstream media as “farmer-herder clashes”: the Middle Belt is a farming region, and the advancing Fulani-owned herds have increasingly encroached on croplands. However, . . . Read More

Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his ‘kith and kin’ – Christian Association of Nigeria

August 2, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Christian Association of Nigeria, Dapchi, Fulani herdsmen, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership is more divided than at any time in the country’s history, the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Adamawa State chapter has declared in a letter sent to him yesterday (1 August). Condemning the “mindless massacre” of the predominantly Christian farming communities by Fulani herdsmen, CAN . . . Read More

Nigeria: herders’ attacks completely decimate villages in ‘scorched earth’ campaigns

July 27, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Yobe

Catholics protest in Kaduna state on 22 May, 2018.

In Nigeria, conflict between farmers and herders has become the country’s gravest security challenge, claiming six times more lives than the Boko Haram insurgency, the International Crisis Group (ICG) says in a report published yesterday. The report, ‘Stopping Nigeria’s Spiralling Farmer-Herder Conflict’, says that more than 1,300 people were killed . . . Read More

Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms

July 19, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kogi, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sahel, Taraba, West Africa

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has challenged the British government on how much it is doing to help end violent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. His comments, made in a House of Lords debate on Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram on Tuesday (17 July), follow the publication of a . . . Read More

Buhari renews pledge to protect Nigerians as killings continue

July 6, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Benue, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Zamfara

The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to end the killings in the restive regions of the Middle Belt, amidst growing pressure to deal with the situation. A spate of attacks over three days – from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June – left more than 200 dead in 11 . . . Read More

Nigerian government ‘not doing enough’ to protect citizens – Amnesty

June 29, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Zamfara

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian government of not doing enough to curb the violence that has claimed more than 1,800 lives so far this year. By failing to hold murderers to account, Nigerian authorities are encouraging impunity that is fuelling rising insecurity across the country, said Amnesty in a . . . Read More

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