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- 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
- UK and US Are Denying Genocide of Christians in Nigeria
More than 50 Christian worshippers were slaughtered in this Catholic church in Ondo, Nigeria June 7, reported that in the first six months of 2022, 2,543 Christians were killed by Islamist extremists in Nigeria I have interviewed Christians in Plateau State in Nigeria who have witnessed the security services looking Meanwhile, the UK gives the Nigerian government £258 million in aid a year (2019 figures). Christians do not make a particular effort to draw attention to the persecution of their coreligionists in Nigeria
- Nigeria remains off U.S. religious freedom watch list
More than 5,000 Christians were killed in 2022 in Nigeria, according to religious freedom watchdog Open Human rights observers in Nigeria and members of the Catholic Church have argued, however, that the Nigerian Francis Xavier Parish in Nigeria’s Owo state. Nigeria’s continued exclusion from the CPC list prompted Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey; Rep. “The Biden administration continues to leave Nigeria off the CPC list for political gain.
- Boko Haram claims kidnapping of over 300 boys in Nigeria, marking an alarming move west
— Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria The Nigerian president and other officials in Africa’s most populous nation initially blamed bandits Although Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced that Boko Haram had been “ technically defeated Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for an attack Saturday about 12 miles from the Nigerian border Ismail Alfa in Maiduguri, Nigeria, contributed to this report © The Washington Post 2020
- Fulani Gunmen kill 14 villagers in northcentral Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked two communities in Nigeria’s north-central region, killing 14 people attackers as “Fulani herdsmen,” a group of mostly young pastoralists from the Fulani tribe caught up in Nigeria In Nigeria’s middle belt and central regions, deadly clashes between local communities and herdsmen continue A similar attack in another part of Benue targeted a convoy of soldiers of the Nigerian army, but they Motorcycle-riding gunmen often arrive in the hundreds in areas where Nigeria’s security forces are outnumbered











