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  • Algeria: A Presidential Election in a Climate of Repression

    "They fear any dissenting voice, any opposition, even peaceful, to the public affairs in Algeria, in Following a visit to Algeria in 2023, the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful information that bans Algerians with dual nationality from owning or being shareholders in a media outlet in Algeria their stranglehold on civic space," Nadege Lahmar, a member of Amnesty International's research team on Algeria

  • Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere

    In parts of neighboring Nigeria, Boko Haram has suffered big losses. But along Nigeria’s blurry border with Niger, Boko Haram fighters are still raging. Assaga is the name of two towns — one in Niger and one in Nigeria — divided by the Komandougou River Nigeria — but many people have no means of buying anything. He escaped Boko Haram over a year ago, when fighters swarmed his house in Nigeria and killed six members

  • Ten abducted in Nigeria after Boko Haram attacks

    soldiers with young men rescued from suspected Boko Haram terrorists after an operation in Borno state, Nigeria File Photo by STR/EPA March 29 (UPI) -- Ten people in the Konduga area of Nigeria's Borno state were Ibrahim Abdullah of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps said that four women and six youths attacked nearby villages, the newspaper Premium Times reported Wednesday, citing the News Agency of Nigeria The abductions are the first reported in the area, the former Boko Haram stronghold in northeastern Nigeria

  • Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado

    "terrorist" situation in Mozambique was beginning to resemble the long-running conflict in northern Nigeria "Mozambique has the third-largest natural gas reserve in Africa after Nigeria and Algeria.

  • ‘They Told Us They Were Here to Help Us.’ Then Came Slaughter.

    CreditStefan Heunis/AgenceFrance-Presse — Getty Images February 28,2017 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A wheelbarrow Instead, they say, the massacres were carried out by the Nigerian military. Islamist militants terrorizing northeast Nigeria. The Nigerian Army has a long record of human rights abuses. The army says it has scattered Boko Haram and encouraged many of the nearly two million people in Nigeria

  • Theresa May 'deeply regrets' UK's colonial anti-gay laws

    There is a global trend towards decriminalizing homosexual acts, but some countries, like Nigeria and

  • OPINION: Buhari And The Menace Of Fulani Herdsmen

    What bothers most Nigerians is the seeming helplessness of the Federal Government and its security personnel On the other hand, he swore an oath before God and Nigerians to devote himself to the security and wellbeing of all Nigerians, not just his tribesmen alone. (c) The Independent (Nigeria) https://independent.ng/buhari-and-the-menace-of-fulani-herdsmen/

  • Niger Country Report 2024

    Niger Country Report 2024    By Brooklyn Quallen     Niger remains one of the poorest countries in the They have killed hundreds of civilians and Nigerien troops.     Ethnic map of Niger. Niger must stop banditry and ISGS forced taxation. Niger’s army needs help to defeat ISGS and Fulani jihadism.   

  • ICON Releases Report Alleging Genocide Against Christians

    The International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), a nonprofit organisation working to secure a future for what it described as allegedly genocide targeted at Christians in Nigeria. In its newly released report, ICON said that Nigeria is a ticking time, warning that if Nigeria Implodes Special Envoy to Nigeria and the Lake Chad region is key to achieving this. Source: New Telegraph, Nigeria

  • Fulani killings of Nigerian Christians meets standard for 'genocide,’ Jubilee Campaign says

    for genocide has now been reached when it comes to the massacres of Christian farming communities in Nigeria “Nearly every single day, I wake up with text messages from partners in Nigeria, such as this morning Why are there nearly 1 million IDPs from the northeast of Nigeria?” Buwalda asked. “Nigeria is a member of the Rome Statute. So Nigeria has been under investigation now for nearly 10 years.

  • Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust

    Biafran refugees flee federal Nigerian troops on a road near Ogbaku, Nigeria in this 1968 photo. and killed Igbos across the then Northern and Western regions of Nigeria. The massacres led the Eastern Region of Nigeria to declare its secession from Nigeria. Nigeria invaded Biafra in July 1967, leading to a protracted war. Biafra officially surrendered to Nigeria in January 1970.

  • Chad: Dozens of soldiers dead after jihadi attack

    Chadian soldiers have previously helped fight against Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria. Lake Chad borders: Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria and gained a notorious reputation for Chadian troops pursued the militants in Nigeria and Niger as part of the "Wrath of Bomo" operation, killing

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