Tag: Rebecca Dali

Award for man who brokered release of Chibok girls

September 19, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali, Refugees, UN

Mr Mustapha and his son who in a nursery class at the school. Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School (I), Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. 17 May 2017

A 58-year-old Nigerian lawyer who brokered the release of 82 Chibok girls taken hostage by Boko Haram has been named as the 2017 winner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. Zannah Mustapha won the prestigious honour, which recognises extraordinary humanitarian work on behalf of . . . Read More

‘I identify with Chibok parents, I too am a victim, I lost my son’ – UN award winner Rebecca Dali

August 21, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Rebecca Dali’s son Timothy, 18, left the house one evening, telling her he was going to visit his friend. “Are you sure?” she asked. It was immediately after the 2011 Nigerian elections, when inter-religious tensions were high. His friend lived across town, in an area where Timothy might be at . . . Read More

Nigerian woman wins UN award for work re-integrating Boko Haram victims

July 26, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, EYN, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

A Nigerian aid worker who works with victims of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the north-east has won the 2017 UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award. Dr Rebecca Dali, Executive Director of the Centre for Caring, Empowerment, and Peace Initiatives (CCEPI), won it because her centre is “at its best” in . . . Read More

Nigerian women lose husbands, homes and sometimes their minds to extremist violence

August 3, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Rebecca Dali, Trauma, Women

For a woman, the loss of her husband is the beginning of hardship for her and her children.CCEPI Forty-something Agnes, from Benue state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, was married to university lecturer John while still young; the couple had nine children. One morning in 2008 Agnes rose to . . . Read More

A year gone

April 13, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali, Stephen Davis

A year later, the parents are still crying. It was April 14, 2014 when militants of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped about 275 teenage school girls from Chibok, a predominantly Christian village in northeastern Nigeria. Some 232 of them are still missing, and for much of the year, . . . Read More

‘How can I celebrate my birthday with a homeless, scattered family?’

October 3, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Gwoza, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Dr Rebecca Dali is the founder of Centre for Caring, Empowerment and Peace Initiatives.Courtesy of CCEPI Nigerian Rebecca Dali’s birthday is 1 October – the same date as her country’s Independence Day. But this year there was little time for celebration because her home town of Michika is overrun . . . Read More

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