Nigeria's communal violence: It's about more than land
April 26, 2018—Eighteen people, including two priests, were killed in an attack on a church in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State, on...
Friederike Müller-Jung
Jun 7, 2018
OPINION: Buhari And The Menace Of Fulani Herdsmen
By Rev. Dr. Francis Ujunwa Simeon Apart from the Boko Haram sect, the other group that constantly sheds innocent blood across the...
Independent Nigeria
Apr 22, 2018
Sierra Leone deploys 145 more police officers to Somalia
Some 145 officers from Sierra Leone’s Formed Police Units (FPU) have been deployed in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online...
Middle East Monitor | middleeastmonitor.com
Apr 19, 2018
INVESTIGATION: Survivors of herdsmen attacks tormented by deaths, rape at Benue IDP camps
Fear of the known – killer herdsmen – dissuaded taxi drivers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, from taking the ICIR reporter to Guma...
Chikezie Omeje | International Centre for
Apr 18, 2018
Boko Haram huntress
Aisha Bakari Gombi has reached real-life superhero status for her battlefield bravery in her fight against Boko Haram. Since the dawn of...
Al Jazeera
Apr 17, 2018
Stolen Lives: More Girls Kidnapped as Violence Escalates in Nigeria
Terrorists continue to attack northern Nigeria, and Christians are in the crosshairs. During the evening hours of February 19, Boko Haram...
21st Century Wilberforce Initiative 11
Mar 13, 2018
A Hidden Face of War
By Isabelle Arradon A few years ago, a woman in her sixties outside Banda Aceh in Indonesia told me about the rape and other torture she...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2018
Burkina Faso’s Alarming Escalation of Jihadist Violence
The attacks represent an alarming escalation for Burkina Faso in terms of organisation, lethality of armaments and length of engagement....
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 5, 2018
Guinean website editor threatened, shots fired at home
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns last week’s shooting attack on the home of Abdoul Latif Diallo, the editor of the Dépêche Guinée...
Reporters without Borders 1
Feb 6, 2018
Burkina Faso: A Report’s Conclusions, Presented on the Ground
To mark the publication of the Report The Social Roots of Jihadist Violence in Burkina Faso’s North on 12 October 2017, West Africa...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 26, 2018
Seven Priorities for the African Union in 2018
What’s the issue? African Union leaders meet at the end of January for their bi-annual summit. Vital institutional and financial reform...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 17, 2018
A new wave of brazen attacks by herdsmen in Nigeria is sparking fears of genocide
Since the start of the year, Nigerians have been served bloody reminders that Boko Haram is no longer the country’s biggest internal...
Quartz
Jan 12, 2018
