The Nigerian army has had some success subduing Islamist group Boko Haram, but Christians are still being killed in Nigeria. Many of the killings are carried out by nomadic Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, a largely Muslim ethnic group that frequently targets the more settled Christian farming communities of central Nigeria. Meanwhile, 12 of Nigeria’s northern states employ Sharia (Islamic law), and Christians in these states face discrimination and restrictions in accessing community resources, such as clean water, health clinics, and higher education.
Kidnapped girls’ parents die as Chibok’s trauma rises
Chibok girls who managed to escape arriving at Nigeria’s State House to meet with Nigerian President Jonathan. Abuja, Nigeria; July 22, 2014Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman, Nigeria For the missing Nigerian girls kidnapped over 100 days ago, another trauma has emerged. Eleven of the group of grieving parents have died, […]
Chibok, 3 months later
Three months to the day after more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped from their school in northeast Nigeria, headlines have been dominated by the visit of another teenager, 17 year old Pakistani Malala Yusufzai, to some of the missing girls’ families and the Nigerian President. But there is no […]
Q&A with EYN President Samuel Dali
The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, known locally as Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria — or EYN Church — has been a direct target of Boko Haram attacks. Many of the families of the more than 200 girls kidnapped in April from their school in Chibok are members of EYN […]
50 killed in Nigerian church attacks
Some of the parents of Chibok’s kidnapped girls. Chibok, Nigeria May 11, 2014World Watch Monitor Scores killed and five churches burnt down as militants raided Christian villages near Chibok, where nearly 300 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in April. On June 29, assailants on motorbikes and in […]
Nigeria largest displaced population in Africa
A new report released last week by the Norwegian Refugee Council and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre shows that Nigeria now has the largest internally displaced population in Africa. It also says there are about 3.3 million displaced people in Nigeria, due to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Boko […]
Boko Haram suspects kill 200 more in Nigeria
Parents, whose daughters were abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, receiving prayer messages of encouragement sent from Christians around the world; 18 May 2014.World Watch Monitor It is feared Boko Haram militants have killed at least 200 more people in a wave of attacks launched across Borno […]
As Boko Haram violence continues, Christians and Muslims talk peace
Jos market bombing. May 20 2014.World Watch Monitor More than 100 people have been killed in three bombings in a span of four days, all suspected to be planted by Boko Haram, in the Nigerian city Jos. On May 24, three people – including the suicide bomber – were […]
Bombs kill dozens in Nigerian Christian district and Jos
At least five people were killed May 18 by a bomb blast in the Christian district of Kano, in Northern Nigeria. That attack was followed by an even more deadly one on May 20, when two bomb explosions rocked the city of Jos, in Nigeria’s heartland. Two bomb blasts were reported, one […]
Nigerian government ‘sympathises’ with Boko Haram
New claims that parts of the Nigerian government share the anti-Christian convictions of Boko Haram have emerged since the group’s abduction of hundreds of school girls, most of who were Christian and are still missing, one month after the incident. “Many Nigerians will tell you that they don’t trust the […]
Chibok victim: Kidnappers threatened to shoot
In this image captured from a 57-minute video released May 5, a man purported to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says he will sell the girls kidnapped April 14 from school in Chibok village, in Borno state, Nigeria.You Tube One of the Nigerian girls to escape her Boko […]