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  • Genocide Watch Report July 2020

    National Security Council, the State Department, and with Alliance partner organizations in Washington DC, Nigeria Stanton has been collaborating with key U.S. policy makers to plan U.S. government actions to assist Nigeria in stopping genocidal massacres against Christians in northeast and central Nigeria. Special Envoy to investigate the crimes against humanity in Nigeria. Dr. Stanton also spoke at press conferences on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria organized by In Defense

  • 75 Abducted Igbo Christians Rejoined Their Families After Over 4 Months In Nigerian Army Captivity

    In other words, they were transferred to DSS and Nigeria Police facilities a few weeks before they regained perpetrators) and authorities of DSS and Nigeria Police Force (conspirators) have refused to speak on Intersociety wishes to state again that by the existing laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria including The Nigeria Police Force as lawful or authorized investigating, arresting, detaining, and prosecuting Army) and Joyce Igwe and Ujunwa Felix (freed from the hands of the Nigeria Police Force after being

  • The Guardian view on #EndSars and the crackdown: Nigerians deserve better

    Pius Utomi Ekpei - Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Nigeria’s flag is stained with blood once more Nigeria has a long history of violent clampdowns on peaceful protest. Nigerians across the country have too often been terrorised by those supposed to protect and serve them A 2016 index of world policing ranked Nigeria’s force as the worst out of 127 countries. But Nigerians have good reason to protest.

  • A Hidden Face of War

    countries with the highest rates of maternal mortality face deadly conflict: the Central African Republic, Nigeria And three others have been marked by devastating wars: Sierra Leone, Chad and Liberia. As Crisis Group’s report on Women and the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria illustrated, access to even Neglecting these issues can fuel new abuses or prolong pain in Aceh, Nigeria and other conflict-affected

  • UNICEF: Number of Children Used for "Human Bombs" in Nigeria Has Quadrupled in 2017

    Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that children have been increasingly used as “human bombs” in northern Nigeria it, the number of casualties. 170 civilians have become the victims of suicide attacks in northern Nigeria In an effort to effectively rid the country of the group, the Nigerian government has announced it is The Nigerian Defence Foreign Minister, Dan-Ali, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Shoigu on 22 The Nigerian government has sought to eliminate Boko Haram from its borders in the past, even claiming

  • Algeria Country Report 2024

    Algeria Country Report   2024   By Brooklyn Quallen   After a bloody war with France, Algeria won its Algerian nationalists seized power and ran Algeria as a one-party state until 1988, when the constitution Ethnic and linguistic map of Algeria. Copyright 2024 Daniel Dalet/d+maps.com Kabylia is home to the Kabyles, the largest indigenous group of Algeria Algerian state’s human rights abuses against its Kabyle Berber ethnic minority, Genocide Watch recognizes Algeria

  • What's Behind Attacks on Foreigners in South Africa?

    live in South Africa and a majority of them were born in other African countries, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria

  • Weaponising Transparency: Defence Procurement Reform as a Counterterrorism Strategy in Nigeria

    Executive Summary Defence sector corruption is a major threat to Nigeria's internal security and political Former military chiefs have stolen as much as US $15 billion – a sum equivalent to half of Nigeria's An estimated US $217.7bn was illegally transferred out of Nigeria between 1970 and 2008. War has been a boon to Nigeria's corrupt. The drop in Nigeria's state oil revenues has hit oil sector rents hard, and this has led Nigeria's corrupt

  • Bandits Allied With Boko Haram Derail Train, Kill 9, Kidnap 168

    on motorbikes strike on the doorstep of the capital By Douglas Burton Officials in Nigeria acknowledged Gunmen Attack Train Near Nigeria's Capital, Kill Some Riders Kachalla Ali’s high-profile attacks have speaking in the video spoke with Fulani accents, but one spoke with an accent linking him to northeast Nigeria The emerging threat facing Nigeria is reflected in the trepidation of pastors in all parts of the country “We organized a conference in April for 200 clergy who came from all regions in Nigeria,” Saul commented

  • Genocide Watch July 2020 Newsletter

    of the global pandemic on groups at risk of genocide in countries such as China, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria Stanton spoke at a press conference on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria organized by In Defense

  • Women, Children and Razor Wire: Inside a Compound for Boko Haram Families

    By Dionne Searcey Former wives of Boko Haram commanders in June at a guarded compound in Maiduguri, Nigeria Credit Jane Hahn for The New York Times MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Beyond the tall, concrete walls of a fortified The 56 women and children held inside have been there for months, after being swept up by the Nigerian In the war with Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group that has terrorized Nigeria for years, anyone who When the Nigerian military invaded, soldiers burned down her house.

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