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  • Nigeria's president rebukes security chiefs over worsening violence

    ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s president criticised his heads of security on Thursday for their handling Security forces in Nigeria, which plays a key role in maintaining stability in West Africa, have in recent But the group continued to mount attacks in the northeast, as well as neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger In May the United Nations said the violence forced 23,000 people to flee to neighbouring Niger within

  • They Fled Boko Haram, Only to Be Raped by Nigeria’s Security Forces

    Rape has been a defining horror of the war with Boko Haram, which has consumed northeastern Nigeria for The New York Times interviewed 18 girls who were captured by militants in Nigeria and sent into crowds lined up for food rations being distributed under military watch in Mainok village in Borno State, Nigeria hundreds of thousands of civilians to move into huge settlements throughout northeastern Nigeria. Video Along the Niger-Nigeria border, just like other areas where militants are active, hundreds of thousands

  • ‘Tens of civilians’ killed in gruesome Nigeria massacre, UN says

    A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed “tens of people”, the United Nations men and women who were harvesting their fields,” Edward Kallon, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria military has effectively surrendered control of rural Nigeria to Boko Haram fighters. Nigeria; this has a devastating effect on Nigeria’s economy and the future of the country entirely.” Speaking to Al Jazeera from Maiduguri, Vincent Lelei, the UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria

  • More than 40 killed in Nigeria as gunmen and vigilantes clash

    Lack of security has become widespread in Nigeria and is a key concern for voters ahead of a February Authorities in Nigeria have warned against people taking the law into their own hands after deadly clashes Photo) 4 Feb 2023 More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between gunmen and vigilantes in Nigeria

  • Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri rocket attack kills 10

    Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria by using rocket-propelled grenades, which local officials for more than a decade, has killed at least 36,000 people and displaced two million in north-eastern Nigeria

  • 20 soldiers, 40 civilians killed in attacks in Nigeria's Borno state

    soldiers and more than 40 civilians have been killed, and hundreds injured in twin attacks in northeast Nigeria's Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed thousands and displaced millions in northeastern Nigeria.ISWAP

  • Genocide Watch map of genocidal massacres: Nigeria and the Sahel 2010-2020

    Genocide Watch's Eric Ross has created a video showing the spreading genocidal massacres by jihadist terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, Fulani jihadists, and the Islamic State West Africa Province. The massacres have killed over 27,000 people, including thousands in 2019 and 2020, making them the deadliest genocidal massacres committed by any terrorists since 2010, more than by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. They have especially targeted Christians. The map was compiled using authenticated data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. https://acleddata.com To view the video click HERE .

  • Gunmen kidnap over 300 girls in Nigeria school raid: Police

    “We are angered and saddened and by yet another brutal attack on schoolchildren in Nigeria,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s Nigeria representative. ,” said Mercy Gichuhi, Save the Children’s Nigeria director. Amnesty International Nigeria said the abductions was “a serious violation of international humanitarian Previous incidents This is the second such kidnapping in a little more than a week in Nigeria’s north

  • Nigeria: President Buhari's war on Boko Haram 'far from over'

    Nigeria Region Borno Boko Haram (Audu Ali Marte/AFP/Getty Images) Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency and end the insecurity in Nigeria's restive Edward Kallon, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, said he was concerned about reports of women The deadliest attack in 2020 The Koshobe incident is Nigeria's deadliest this year. Essentially, Nigeria, Iraq, and Afghanistan were described as being in a state of war.

  • Nigeria police rescue 10 people after ‘baby factory’ raid

    Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women, and two other Police raids on illegal maternity units are relatively common in Nigeria, especially in the south.

  • Genocide Emergency: Nigeria

    Genocide Watch is issuing an updated Genocide Emergency for Nigeria. splinter group the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have terrorized civilians in Northeast Nigeria A view of an empty classroom at the school in Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe, Nigeria, where Attackers have successfully stormed schools in the north of Nigeria three times in the past five months The genocidal violence perpetrated by Fulani jihadists in Nigeria’s Northwest and Middle Belt has received

  • Reprisals Feared in Nigeria after Bombing of 40 Pastoralists

    Timothy Obiezu January 27, 2023 FILE - Herders graze their livestock in Nigeria's northern state of Kaduna The death toll has risen to 40 from an attack on animal herders on the border between Nigeria's Nassarawa ABUJA, NIGERIA — Officials in Nigeria say the death toll from an attack on animal herders has risen to Farmers and herders in central Nigeria have been clashing over grazing land for decades. An umbrella group for cattle breeders in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria

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