A decade on, tragedy of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls endures outside the spotlight
Chibok, Nigeria Reuters Ten years ago, Solomon Maina’s daughter, Debora, was one of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in the middle of the night by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants. Global outrage was swift. A ubiquitous “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, drawing support from the likes of Michelle Obama and Sylvester Stallone, shined a […]
Nigeria defence chief says bad intel hinders fight on kidnappings
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters Nigeria’s Defence Chief General Chris Musa said on Monday the military was being fed bad intelligence by informants, hampering the fight against armed kidnapping gangs who continue to abduct students and residents in the north of the country. The military announced on Sunday that it had rescued 137 students abducted by gunmen […]
Nigeria: Kidnaps break up families, keep children out of school
GARBA MOHAMMAD, ABRAHAM ACHIRGA and GIULIA PARAVICINI, of Reuters, report…
“I forced her to go to school”, Nigerian mother cries after mass school abduction
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters Seven-year-old Safiya Kuriga complained she was feeling feverish but her mother still made her attend class on Thursday. Within two hours, gunmen entered her school and kidnapped Safiya and some 300 other students in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state. “I forced her to go to school that morning despite her complaining to me […]
Suspected insurgents kidnap 50 people in north-east Nigeria
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Suspected Islamist insurgents kidnapped 50 people, mostly women, in north-eastern Nigeria this week, local officials and a resident said on Wednesday, the latest mass abduction by fighters who have waged an insurgency for more than a decade. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated in Borno […]
Islamist Nigerian militants press attacks against Christians to foment religious war
Abuja, Nigeria RNS Islamist Fulani militants in the central Nigerian state of Plateau are continuing an anti-Christian killing spree that began with a devastating Christmas-time attack that left almost 200 Christians dead and hundreds others injured. On 18th February, six people were ambushed, with one killed and others injured, including a woman who was raped. […]
Suspected Boko Haram kills 15 farmers in north-east Nigeria
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters At least 15 rice farmers were killed and several others feared abducted in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages, a local farmers’ leader said on Monday. The attack occurred in the villages of Koshebe, Karkut, and Bulabulin in the Mafa local government area in the state, about […]
Suspected Boko Haram kills at least 40 in Nigeria’s Yobe state, police say
Maiduguri Nigeria Reuters At least 40 people were killed in Nigeria’s Yobe state between Monday and Tuesday after suspected Boko Haram militants shot at villagers and set off a land mine, in the first major attack on the north-eastern state in 18 months, the police said on Wednesday. The attack happened at about 8:30pm on […]
Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Nigeria’s Borno state
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ransom for their release, two of the victims and a local leader said. Bukar Isa, from the Mines Advisory Group, shows displaced victims […]
Islamist militants behead at least 10 farmers in Nigeria’s Borno state – residents
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Islamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria’s northern state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last week, militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency and the center of a more than […]