Tag: Borno

500 days since Chibok girls’ kidnap

August 27, 2015 Nigeria Abuja, Adamawa, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, IDPs, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Yobe

It’s been 500 days this week, since the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian village of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria. Since then, little has been heard of their fate: some are presumed to have been forced into marriages, or used . . . Read More

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

August 2, 2015 Adamawa, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Kidnapping, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, N'Djamena, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Refugees, West Africa

On 25 July, 20 people were killed when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in a crowded bar in Maroua, northern Cameroon.World Watch Monitor The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has intensified its suicide bombing attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in recent weeks. On Friday (31 July) a . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

5,000 killed, 100,000 displaced by Boko Haram

May 14, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Catholics, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Yobe

A new report has highlighted the scope of Boko Haram’s attacks against Christians in north-east Nigeria. More than 5,000 Catholics have been killed, 100,000 displaced and 350 churches attacked – “a good number of them destroyed more than once” – according to the ‘Situation Report’ from the Diocese of Maiduguri, . . . Read More

The man who talks to Boko Haram

March 26, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Kidnapping, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Pentecostals, Stephen Davis, Trauma

One year after the kidnapping of 232 Nigerian girls, Australian Stephen Davis still says his contacts indicate complicity among Nigerian politicians. A year ago April 14, Boko Haram kidnapped 275 girls from the government secondary school in the Christian-dominated town of Chibok, Borno State. Students reported to the Chibok Government Secondary . . . Read More

‘Western forces’ help needed to defeat Boko Haram’

January 20, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Maiduguri, Nigeria

A Bishop whose north-east Nigerian diocese has suffered most at the hands of Boko Haram is calling for the West to send in military forces to defeat the militants. Bishop Dashe Dome of Maiduguri diocese, told Aid to the Church in Need, “The West should bring in security – land . . . Read More

Boko Haram kills up to 2,000 & burns churches

January 9, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Nigeria

Several churches have been burned in a series of attacks Jan. 3-7 by Boko Haram in Baga, Borno state Nigeria, which the BBC said have claimed up to 2,000 victims. “I received a message of the Christians Association of Nigeria, the association of Christian churches in Nigeria, which states that . . . Read More

Christmas celebrated despite fears of Boko Haram

December 30, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Christmas, Maiduguri, Nigeria

According to Agenzia Fides, the streets of the capital city of Borno State, Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria were kept vehicle-free Dec. 25-28 in order to prevent suicide bombings by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Pastor Gideon Obasogie, Director of Communications of the Diocese of Maiduguri, said despite the lack of security . . . Read More

Another mass kidnapping and killing in Nigeria

December 19, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Women

Boko Haram is suspected to have killed at least 30 people and kidnapped as many as 200 women and children in an attack on a Nigerian village. A witness told the BBC “he helped bury 33 bodies,” and “about 200 women and children had been kidnapped from Gumsuri village in . . . Read More

Boko Haram may disenfranchise 1.5m Nigerian voters

December 17, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan, Kidnapping, Nigeria

At least 1.5m Nigerians displaced by the Islamist insurgency may not get to vote in the country’s 2015 elections, the BBC reported 17 December. This includes many Christians who helped elect President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. Voting laws need to be amended otherwise some voters will be disenfranchised, said Nick . . . Read More

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