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  • What will it take to wake up the Church?

    the cries of five million mainstream Muslims and minority Christians who are displaced in Northern Nigeria

  • Country Report: Western Sahara

    Since then, war has driven 158,000 Sahrawi people into refugee camps in Algeria. In August 2021, Algeria publicly broke diplomatic relations with Morocco, citing the government’s ‘abandonment The Moroccan Government should help the UNHCR and IOM to resettle Sahrawi refugees in Algeria and Mauritania

  • Watch List 2017 – Second Update

    Nigeria: Growing Insecurity on Multiple Fronts Nigeria is facing a time of uncertainty and peril. House of Representatives speaker, Yakubu Dogara, said Nigeria ‘‘is effectively permanently in a state means that it should also watch closely political, social and security developments in other regions in Nigeria south, which has been in place since the return to multi-party democracy in 1999 as a way to address Nigeria Despite the February Oslo donor pledging conference, UN officials reported the US$1.05 billion Nigeria

  • Abandoned Cemetery Highlights France's Colonial History

    the treatment of the predominately Muslim Algerians known as Harkis who fought for the French during Algeria More than 200,000 Harkis were left to their fate in Algeria after the war and many were tortured and The local prefect threatened to send misbehaving school students back to Algeria, despite their French

  • AU should lead peace talks, Ethiopia's ruling party says

    REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo ADDIS ABABA, June 27 (Reuters) - The African Union should facilitate In his role as the AU's Horn of Africa envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has been conducting

  • SERAP Seeks Sanctions Against South Africa over Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians

    on the Federal Government to sanction the Republic of South Africa for Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians NGO, said in a statement on Sunday in Lagos that the development called for the intervention of the Nigerian “SERAP notes the persistent and longstanding xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals The letter stated that the immigration status of Nigerians and other foreign nationals residing in South The organisation expressed its concerns over the estimated 100 Nigerians that had been unlawfully killed

  • Is South Africa Prepared for the Next Wave of Xenophobic Violence?

    One such group organizing under the slogan “Put South Africans First” marched to the Nigerian Embassy

  • Double-edged Sword: Vigilantes in African Counter-insurgencies

    insurgency in 2009 from the city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria. A brutal 2009 crackdown by Nigeria’s security forces in Maiduguri – including Yusuf’s death while in Should they not materialise, Nigeria may be left with another angry armed group in the troubled north As the Boko Haram threat wanes, Nigeria likewise is faced with the challenge of preventing members of In most of Nigeria’s 36 states, where the largely federally-controlled security structures often fail

  • U.N. Panel Calls for Peacekeeping Force in Sudan

    a devastating and long-lasting psychological impact on children in Sudan,” said Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, a Nigerian

  • Saudi Arabia, Togo Back Morocco’s Western Sahara Plan

    Akakpo also expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in the Tindouf camps in Algeria, calling

  • To escape sexual violence at home, female migrants must risk sexual violence on the way to Europe

    Two Nigerian women, one 25 years old, one 24 years old, both raped.” The International Organization for Migration, a U.N. body, estimated that 80 percent of the 11,009 Nigerian dragged, and thrown on a boat,” said Sarah Adeyinka, an MSF cultural mediator, whose own cousin from Nigeria

  • UNAMID to Be Gutted by UN Security Council, Creating Intolerable Risks for Civilians in Darfur

    In this photo, UNAMID head Ibrahim Gambari (Nigeria) is see chatting with indicted génocidaire Omar al-Bashir

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