Tag: Lake Chad

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

Attacks by members of the Islamic State group against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community “were among the deadliest acts of religious persecution” last year, according a new report presented in Washington DC yesterday, 13 September. “Fifty-three per cent of ISIS attacks against the public in 2017 were aimed at the Coptic . . . Read More

Nigeria: Fears for captive Chibok girls as Boko Haram forced to flee

February 6, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Lake Chad, Nigeria

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and his fighters have fled their base in the Sambisa Forest for Konduga, an area closer to Borno state capital Maiduguri, reports Nigeria’s Daily Trust. The insurgents have taken with them an “unspecified number” of captives, believed to include the remaining Chibok schoolgirls. Following the . . . Read More

Niger: pastor’s daughter kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants

October 17, 2017 Niger Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Diffa, Lake Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Sahel, West Africa

Street scene in Zinder, Niger's second biggest town, where thousands of people fled to after Boko Haram first attacked Diffa in February 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The teenage daughter of a pastor was kidnapped on 16 October in Diffa, south-eastern Niger, in what appears to be the first targeted kidnapping of a Christian by Boko Haram-affiliated militants in the West African nation. Aphodiya Garba Maida, 17, daughter of a pastor with the EERN (Église Évangélique de . . . Read More

Boko Haram: 381 killed in Nigeria and Cameroon since April

September 5, 2017 Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Far North, Lake Chad, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have claimed the lives of at least 381 civilians in the five months since the start of April 2017, with casualties more than double the previous five months, says Amnesty International in a new report. The radical Islamist group had . . . Read More

Lake Chad Basin crisis to dominate African Union Summit

June 27, 2017 Addis Ababa, African Union, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Lake Chad, Maiduguri, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria

As the 29th African Union (AU) Summit begins today (27 June), one of the major talking points will be the “now-major conflict zone” of the Lake Chad Basin, writes Omar S Mahmood, analyst at The Institute for Security Studies. The UN has described the situation in north-eastern Nigeria – one . . . Read More

22 girls and women kidnapped as Boko Haram strikes again in north-east Nigeria

April 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Nigeria

Boko Haram has abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in north-east Nigeria, residents and vigilantes say. In the first attack on 30 March, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near the border with Cameroon, where they kidnapped 18 girls. In the second incident, outside the village . . . Read More

Pledges to avert famine for 3m in Lake Chad region

February 28, 2017 Boko Haram, Borno, Lake Chad, Nigeria, Norway, Somalia, UN, Yemen

Only a third of the $1.5bn in emergency funding sought by the UN this year to prevent a famine in parts of northern Nigeria and neighbouring areas of the Lake Chad region has been raised at a summit in Oslo. Aid agencies must get food to almost 3 million by . . . Read More

Boko Haram causing ‘untold misery’ in northern Cameroon

December 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Lake Chad, Mayo-Tsanaga, Nguetchewe

Nearly 170,000 people have fled their homes in N. Cameroon, while the area has received at least 73,000 Nigerian refugees. World watch Monitor “Yesterday I had just one cup of millet [grain] left. There are 12 people in our house. We went to bed last night not knowing what we’ll . . . Read More

‘We are in a catastrophe’

September 23, 2016 Ban Ki-moon, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Diffa, Lake Chad, London, Mahamadou Issoufou, New York, Niger, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Sub-Saharan Africa, UN

Leaders of Africa’s Lake Chad Basin countries affected by Boko Haram’s intensifying insurgency over the past two weeks are calling on the international community to act urgently against the region’s ongoing humanitarian “catastrophe”. Presidents Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria), Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger), Idriss Deby Itno (Chad) and Paul Biya (Cameroon) are scheduled . . . 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

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