Pastoralists and their cattle in Sokoto district in north-west Nigeria (Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images According to Morning Star News, radical Fulani militants have killed multiple Christians in Nigeria’s According to Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List, Nigeria ranks number 12, where Christians are the most

ICON Press Conference for "Nigeria's Silent Slaughter" At the end of July, ICON hosted a virtual press conference to launch her data report, titled "Nigeria's Silent Slaughter: Genocide in Nigeria" You have helped make a difference in your advocacy work for Nigeria! rights of the persecuted and vulnerable in Nigeria. Launched our data report, "Nigeria's Silent Slaughter: Genocide in Nigeria" Provided palliative care

: Finding Reasonable Basis to Believe Crimes Against Humanity Occurred during Ministerial Event on Nigeria's farmer-herder clashes narrative that has been used to describe the violence in the Middle Belt and northern Nigeria report joins NGOs around the world in the continuing call for international efforts to end violence in Nigeria to the predominately Christian farming tribes in the Middle Belt and surrounding states and that the Nigerian

More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger’s Maradi region during the past two months alone They are fleeing growing insecurity and atrocities across north-western Nigeria, most of it at the hands Nigerian “bandits” also regularly enter Niger to steal cattle. An estimated 30,000 refugees have fled extreme violence in northwestern Nigeria since April, according The refugees from Nigeria were allowed to seek protection in Niger despite border closures due to COVID

Experts have said that the violence in Nigeria is escalating and the government is failing to stop the Nigeria is nearing a tipping point. In a column for the Christian Post, Stephen Enada said, “Nigeria has been sitting on this powder keg We cannot let violence continue in Nigeria.

numbers, including contacts in the army and police, was found following a village massacre on Sunday in Nigeria 100 jihadists terrorized a predominantly Christian village in Angwan Magaji, located in the center of Nigeria The Fulani, who practice Islam, are one of Nigeria’s major ethnic groups. Talatu Joseph cries while being interviewed after a village massacre April 19, 2020 in Nigeria’s Kaduna western Plateau State since 2002, according to Kyle Abts, director of the International Committee on Nigeria

Newsroom, Jul 4, 2022 / 11:41 am Residents of predominantly Christian villages in north-central Nigeria Nigerian media have reported that the claim that the helicopter fired on village defenders has been debunked The representative of Kajuru County in the Nigerian House of Representatives, Yakubu Umar Barde, has called for an investigation of possible complicity between the Nigerian military and the terrorists.

Villagers gather at the church in Ngbra-Zongo, Plateau State, Nigeria on Wednesday. Tuesday including a Christian pastor, and burned down a town’s only school, during an attack in Central Nigeria to death by Muslim militants near Jos, the capital of Nigeria’s Plateau State. 40 km away from the Irigwe villages, said Kyle Abts, a director of the International Committee on Nigeria The March report calls Nigeria “a killing field of defenseless Christians.”

While the slaughter of Nigerian Christians continues to elude an official designation of genocide, one During the first term of recently re-elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured), almost he notes Curry shares that over 3,700 Christians were killed for their faith last year in northern Nigeria "It is not going to get better with the current corruption and leadership vacuum in Nigeria," he continues "It's going to get worse for Christians in northern Nigeria until the church wakes up and the Nigerian

Credit: Lawrence Zongo/Zenger ANCHA, Nigeria—Armed hordes of Muslim militants rampaged through villages in central Nigeria this week, killing unarmed farmers and burning people alive in their houses. Nigeria’s Fula ethnicity comprises 15.4 million people, nearly all of them Muslims. The victims of a Fulani attack in Ancha, Nigeria were laid to rest on March 31, 2020. of the International Committee on Nigeria.

A residence burned in Jebbu-Miango, Plateau State, Nigeria the night of July 31, 2021. Reactions from human rights specialists in Washington and Nigeria were swift. Mary Beth Leonard is the April Glaspie of Nigeria,” Stanton said. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.” “The report from Nigeria Army and Nigeria military is false and fake,” said a clergyman from Miango District

ABUJA, NIGERIA - Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after Hundreds of people have been killed in northern Nigeria by criminal gangs carrying out robberies and Such attacks have added to security challenges in Nigeria, which is struggling to contain Islamist insurgencies Last week, unidentified gunmen killed a student in an attack on a boarding school in Nigeria's north-central Niger state and kidnapped 42 people, including 27 students. © VOA 2021