Tag: Adamawa

Thousands of Nigerian refugees forced back home to looming famine

June 30, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Niger, Refugees, UN, Yobe

Thousands of Nigerians who fled Boko Haram’s insurgency, and sought refuge in neighbouring Cameroon, have been forced back home, the UN said on 29 June, as Reuters reports. According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), some 887 Nigerians, most of them children, were repatriated against their will on 27 June alone. The . . . Read More

Northeast Nigeria ‘greatest crisis on the African continent’, says UN

March 27, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Gwoza, IDPs, Yobe, Yola

The UN has described the unfolding disaster in north-eastern Nigeria as the “greatest crisis on the continent” – the full extent of which has only been revealed as extremist militant group Boko Haram is pushed back. The UN estimated in December that 75,000 children are at risk of dying of . . . Read More

Victims of Boko Haram, Fulani violence to receive trauma counselling

November 25, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, IDPs, Plateau, Refugees, Trauma, Yola

A trauma care centre is being constructed in Nigeria to support Christians who have suffered religiously motivated violence or abuse at the hands of Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen. The centre is being built by Open Doors International, a charity which supports Christians under pressure for their faith. In April, . . . Read More

75,000 children in N. Nigeria risk ‘dying of hunger’; 14 million need humanitarian aid, says UN

November 18, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Gwoza, IDPs, Niger, UN, Yobe

The UN says 75,000 children are at risk of dying of hunger in north-east Nigeria.Open Doors International Seventy-five thousand children are at risk of dying of hunger in north-east Nigeria, reports the UN, as the region deals with the aftermath of Boko Haram violence. The UN also says that . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians return to rebuild lives in communities liberated from Boko Haram

August 16, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Joseph Kurah

Nigerian Christians displaced by Boko Haram are beginning to return home. They are being encouraged by the government, which has won back territory from the insurgents but which is also struggling to provide enough aid. World Watch Monitor received a first-hand account from church worker Isaac*, describing day-to-day living now . . . Read More

More attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria

August 4, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Children, Kaduna, Nigeria, Women

Attacks against Christians in Nigeria continue, particularly at the hands of Fulani herdsmen. On 2 August, according to local media, at least 30 people were killed in north-eastern Nigeria in the Christian-dominated Demsa area of Adamawa State in an attack on the village of Kodomun and others nearby. “The attackers invaded . . . Read More

UN condemns ‘barbaric’ Boko Haram

July 28, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, IDPs, Lake Chad, Nigeria, UN, Yobe, Yola

The United Nations has accused the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram of “almost unimaginable” violence and brutality in Nigeria. Stephen O’Brien, its global humanitarian co-ordinator, said the militant group’s actions had forced millions to flee, and that more than nine million people in the Lake Chad region need humanitarian assistance. . . . Read More

14 million affected by Nigeria conflict

July 14, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, IDPs, Nigeria, Yobe

Boko Haram’s insurgency has created a severe humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s north-eastern States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, says ACAPS, a Swiss-based research group, in its July . Over 14 million people are affected by conflict in these states and more than 10 million are in need, it says. Recent . . . Read More

1.3 million Christians displaced in N. Nigeria

May 31, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Agatu, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Yobe

Christians in northern Nigeria have paid a heavy price for Fulani herdshmen’s attacks and Boko Haram’s insurgency, which aims at implementing Sharia in Africa’s most populous country. An estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million others were displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned between 2006 and 2014, said . . . Read More

Boko Haram will leave legacy of ‘hatred’

April 18, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Nigeria

Boko Haram’s terror tactics in north-eastern Nigeria have led to increasing mistrust between Christians and Muslims, according to . Long after Boko Haram has gone, she said, the insurgents will leave behind in some communities ‘a dense cloud of internecine hatred and suspicion’. Nwaubani visited Michika in the north-eastern state . . . Read More

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