Tag: Nigeria

Chibok girls ‘forced to kill’ for Boko Haram

June 30, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Children, Genocide, Nigeria

Some of the kidnapped Chibok girls have been forced to join Boko Haram and carry out killings, the BBC has been told. Witnesses who escaped from the same camps that were holding some of the Chibok girls said they have been brainwashed and are being used to terrorise other captives . . . 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

Cameroonians killed in Boko Haram attacks

May 12, 2015 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nigeria

Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 16 people and burning down 60 homes in villages on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, close to where the militants still hold positions. Esaje Djewed, a witness, told World Watch Monitor that there were some Christians among the dead. Another witness, Maina Gabriel, . . . Read More

Corruption threatening Nigeria, not religion

May 12, 2015 Nigeria APC, Corruption, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Sharia

Nigeria’s major problem is neither ethnic nor religious but corruption, which has remained endemic and entrenched, said President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s Christians, especially those in the troubled northeast, have expressed concerns over the election of the former military ruler, who once endorsed the full implementation of sharia (Islamic law) throughout . . . Read More

Good news in Nigeria, but not for Chibok girls, yet

May 10, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Some of the hundreds of people, mostly women and children, rescued from Boko Haram camps in Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest, in early May 2015.Photo courtesy Open Doors International The tide may have turned against Boko Haram, at least for the moment. Camps in the Sambisa forest – said to be . . . Read More

Internally displaced reach record high

May 7, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Democratic Republic of the Congo, IDPs, Iraq, Nigeria, Refugees, Sudan

The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world is the “worst in a generation” according to a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). A record-breaking 38 million have been displaced within their own country by conflict or violence. Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Democratic Republic of Congo . . . Read More

Religious groups face extinction around world

May 4, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Anti-balaka, Armenian Genocide, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kachin, Myanmar, Nigeria, Seleka, Sunni, Syria, UN

Campaigners warn that 100 years after the Armenian genocide there are still religious and ethnic groups facing extinction around the world. Groups identified include Christians in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR), and the Christian Kachin in Myanmar. Each of these countries is listed on the 2015 . . . Read More

2014: A year of particular concern

April 30, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Anti-balaka, Bashar al-Assad, BJP, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Chibok girls, Chin, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghar Wapsi, Hindu nationalism, India, Iran, Iraq, Islamic State, Kachin, Kano, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Potiskum, Rohingya, Saudi Arabia, Seleka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

If ever there were a year that made plain the importance of religious freedom, 2014 was it, according to the just-released annual report by an American government advisory group. “By any measure, the horrors of the past year speak volumes about how and why religious freedom and the protection of the . . . Read More

100s rescued from Boko Haram camps

April 29, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Women

The Nigerian army has rescued about 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa Forest. Its spokesman said the freed hostages have yet to be fully identified but confirmed that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls were not among them. ‘The rescue is a rare piece of good news from northeast . . . Read More

Migrants fear home, not death

April 20, 2015 Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Libya, Migrants, Nigeria, Refugees

Another 700 Africans attempting to reach Europe by boat are feared dead after their boat sank yesterday (19 April) 60 miles off the Libyan coast. At the time of writing, just 28 had been rescued by the Italian coastguard, and 24 bodies recovered. Record numbers of would-be migrants have drowned . . . Read More

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