Attacks, Abuses On the Rise in Africa’s Sahel Region
JOHANNESBURG - While global attention remains centered on the coronavirus, a U.S. special envoy is sounding the alarm about crises in...
VOA (Voice of America)
Aug 3, 2020
Boko Haram's tactics terrorize children in Nigeria
Second Country Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Nigeria Boys and girls in northeast Nigeria continued to...
United Nations
Jul 27, 2020
Sahel: Atrocities by the security forces are fueling recruitment by armed Islamists
Since at least 2015, Islamist armed attacks on villages, markets, restaurants, convoys and churches in West Africa’s Sahel region have...
Human Rights Watch
Jul 2, 2020
Sahel summit agrees need to intensify campaign against jihadists
International and regional powers agreed at talks on Tuesday to intensify a military campaign against Islamist militants in the West...
Reuters
Jun 30, 2020
More than 30,000 refugees flee violence in northwestern Nigeria in last two months alone
More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger’s Maradi region during the past two months alone, tripling the number who have...
United Nations
Jun 26, 2020
Time is running out for civilians in Africa's Sahel region as attacks multiply
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is alarmed over escalating violence in the Sahel region which has seen hundreds of innocent civilians...
Genocide Watch
Jun 11, 2020
Amnesty says abuses rampant as West African armies target jihadists
Soldiers in three West African countries unlawfully killed or caused the disappearance of at least 199 people between February and April...
Reuters
Jun 10, 2020
