Secretary of State Antony Blinken for naming India alongside China, Myanmar, Nigeria, Eritrea, Afghanistan

The Katsina attacks add to the regular attacks in north-west and north-central Nigeria by various armed

terrorist group Boko Haram is suspected of open firing on mourners at a funeral in the north-eastern Nigerian Reuters reports that Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack and ordered the military Boko Haram has slaughtered Christians in Nigeria by the thousands and hopes to overthrow Nigeria's government Boko Haram has also terrorized countless Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon The United Nations' refugee agency said in January that the violence forced 30,000 Nigerians to flee

For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Niger, please visit: https://www.hrw.org/africa/niger Niger’s Conflict Since 2015, armed Islamists have carried out attacks against Niger’s security forces Until 2019, most of these attacks occurred in southeastern Niger by the Nigeria-based groups Boko Haram Beginning in 2019, armed Islamist groups ramped up their attacks in western Niger. The armed conflict in western Niger is underscored by intercommunal tensions.

Myanmar and for “non-violence campaigners for peace and freedom from Tibet, East Timor (now Timor Leste), Nigeria

The GTI's definition of the region includes parts of 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroon , Guinea, The Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Chad and Mauritania. since the country's coups of 2020 and 2021 - largely in the east near its borders with Burkina Faso and Niger the region as defined by the GTI report: two in Mali, two in Burkina Faso, one in Guinea and one in Niger Niger is the world's seventh-largest producer of uranium, and unregulated artisanal gold mines found

Ruth Maclean  is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria,

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their homes in a plan by ISIS, from Syria by the Neo-Ottoman and Russian invasion, and massacred in Nigeria

Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Brazil, Bosnia, DR Congo, Nigeria

Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Brazil, Bosnia, DR Congo, Nigeria

and girls affected by the violence and respond to immediate humanitarian needs To the Government of Nigeria As is the norm throughout Nigeria, Muslim women in the North East do not usually own land or homes. While Nigeria does not recognise polygamous unions under federal civil law, the twelve northern states Marrying soon after puberty is a main reason the North East has Nigeria’s lowest school attendance ratio This became a global affair, with leading female civil society activists throughout Nigeria joining in