Tag: West Africa

Attackers ‘search for Christians’ in Burkina Faso

August 26, 2015 Burkina Faso Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, West Africa

Suspected Islamic militants attacked near the West African nation’s border with Mali on Monday, wounding at least two people as they said they were targeting Christians, a witness and a security official said. Witness Alassane Hamidou told Associated Press that he had gone to a police station in Oursi about . . . Read More

IS ‘enshrines theology of rape’

August 14, 2015 Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Iraq, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Rape, Syria, West Africa

In 2014, following the kidnapping of 230 teenage girls from the mainly Christian enclave of Chibok in northern Nigeria, World Watch Monitor asked the question: How does Boko Haram justify its actions? A year later, The New York Times reports that the self-proclaimed Islamic State has “enshrined a theology of . . . Read More

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

August 2, 2015 Adamawa, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Kidnapping, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, N'Djamena, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Refugees, West Africa

On 25 July, 20 people were killed when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in a crowded bar in Maroua, northern Cameroon.World Watch Monitor The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has intensified its suicide bombing attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in recent weeks. On Friday (31 July) a . . . Read More

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

July 23, 2015 Niger Baptists, Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Churches, Islamic extremism, Mahamadou Issoufou, Niamey, Niger, Prophet Muhammad, Protestants, Trauma, West Africa, Zinder

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, the churches in the predominantly Muslim West African nation of Niger experienced the worst attacks in their history. On the weekend of 16-17 January, hundreds of angry Islamists attacked and ransacked dozens of properties and churches, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah . . . Read More

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 13, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country's northern and northeastern regions, stronghold of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram.

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

July 12, 2015 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, West Africa

March 2014 attacks in Kaduna state, in central Nigeria, left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor It has been a deadly July in Nigeria. More than 200 people have been killed since June 30 in attacks that have come almost daily in the country’s . . . Read More

Churches burned down over anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstration in Niger

January 15, 2015 Niger Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Mahamadou Issoufou, Maradi, MUJAO, Niger, West Africa, Zinder

A 2013 church service in Niger.Courtesy Open Doors International At least five churches in southeastern Niger were ransacked and burned down Friday by hundreds of Islamist demonstrators angered by a cartoon published by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to local sources contacted by World Watch Monitor, hundreds of . . . Read More

Nigeria attacks kill more than 150

March 17, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria, on March 14 left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor More than 150 people have been killed since Friday in central and northern Nigeria in separate attacks on villages populated by a concentration of Christians. On Friday, March 14, . . . Read More

Nigeria’s deadly winter

February 14, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attackers stormed this Catholic church during mass, blocked the main door, detonated homemade bombs, and opened fire.Twitter / @ChristianPost The new year has begun in exceptionally violent fashion in north-eastern Nigeria, prompting Christian organisations to renew their pleas for better government security. Boko Haram, the militant group that wants . . . Read More

Upsurge in attacks signals growing Islamist threat in Niger

June 14, 2013 Niger Agadez, Mahamadou Issoufou, Maradi, MUJAO, Niamey, West Africa, Zinder

The remains of the car used in the May 23 suicide attack in Agadez.World Watch Monitor Four attacks within the last three weeks in Niger have raised the spectre of a growing Islamist threat in the country. In the latest attack on Tuesday (June 11), unidentified armed men attacked . . . Read More

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Tag: West Africa

Attackers ‘search for Christians’ in Burkina Faso

IS ‘enshrines theology of rape’

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

Are Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ Christians victims of ethnic cleansing?

Churches burned down over anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstration in Niger

Nigeria attacks kill more than 150

Nigeria’s deadly winter

Upsurge in attacks signals growing Islamist threat in Niger

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