

Northeast Nigeria violence forces 65,000 to flee
A spate of clashes involving Government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and...
Genocide Watch
Apr 16, 2021


Cameroon: Boko Haram Attacks Escalate in Far North
Boost Civilian Protection, Monitor Troops’ Conduct (Nairobi) – The Islamist armed group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on civilians in...
Human Rights Watch
Apr 6, 2021


Gunmen kidnap over 300 girls in Nigeria school raid: Police
Police confirm the abduction of at least 317 girls from school in Zamfara state, second kidnapping in more than a week. Unidentified...
Al Jazeera
Feb 26, 2021


Gunmen Kill 36 in Attacks on Two Northern Nigerian States
ABUJA, NIGERIA - Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled...
Genocide Watch
Feb 25, 2021


Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri rocket attack kills 10
Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria by using rocket-propelled grenades, which local officials describe as a "new trend"....
BBC News
Feb 24, 2021


Rising insecurity in northwest Nigeria: Terrorism thinly disguised as banditry
In spite of government efforts, the security situation in Nigeria is deteriorating. Indeed, the lingering conflict between herders and...
Oluwole Ojewale | Brookings
Feb 20, 2021


Gunmen raid villages in northwest Nigeria, killing 19
At least 19 people killed when armed men raided two villages in Kaduna state, the government said. At least 19 people were killed when...
Al Jazeera
Feb 8, 2021


NINA SHEA ON PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
House Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission December 17, 2020 Statement of Nina Shea Hudson Institute - Director...
Nina Shea
Feb 5, 2021


Jihadist attack kills 13 in northern Cameroon
Douala (AFP) - Thirteen civilians, eight of them children, died Friday when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a jihadist attack...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Jan 8, 2021


Rebels attack villages in northern Nigeria, killing 10
By Haruna Umar MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Attacks by gunmen suspected to be from Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels have killed at least...
Associated Press 1
Dec 29, 2020


Boko Haram kill villagers in Christmas Eve attack
Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a church on...
BBC News
Dec 25, 2020


Boko Haram claims kidnapping of over 300 boys in Nigeria, marking an alarming move west
By Danielle Paquette DAKAR, Senegal — Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school in northwestern...
Washington Post
Dec 15, 2020