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 […]
UN seeks $US1.3 billion for Nigerians affected by insurgency
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters The United Nations on Thursday appealed for $US1.3 billion to provide assistance to six million Nigerians who are suffering the impact of a long-running Islamist insurgency in the north-east of the country. The militant Boko Haram group and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have been fighting Nigerian security forces in […]
Nigeria suspects Islamic State of killing 40 in Catholic church
Abuja, NigeriaReuters Nigerian authorities suspect the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out a massacre in a Catholic church on Sunday in which 40 people were killed, Interior Minister Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said on Thursday. Assailants wielding AK-47 rifles and explosives attacked the congregation at St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, in […]
Some militant arms in Niger came from West African state stockpiles – report
Lagos, NigeriaReuters Significant proportions of weapons and arms seized from Islamist insurgents in Niger came from West African state stockpiles, suggesting authorities are struggling to secure arms stores in the region, a report said on Monday. There was no suggestion that any governments were sending weapons to militants who have launched attacks in Niger as […]
UN chief backs Nigeria’s integration of insurgents, calls it key to peace
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he fully supported moves to expand facilities to reintegrate surrendering Islamist insurgents in north-eastern Nigeria because it was a key step to achieving peace in Africa’s most populous nation. Nigeria has been fighting Islamist group Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) […]
Nigeria extremists still “very dangerous”, says UN official
Abuja, NigeriaAP The Islamic extremist insurgency in north-east Nigeria is a “very, very dangerous [and] very threatening” crisis that needs more than $US1 billion in aid in 2022 to assist those hit by the decade-long conflict, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said. In an interview with The Associated Press, Griffiths, head of the UN […]
Essay: Nigeria – We must not stop calling and praying for Leah Sharibu’s freedom
With her 18th birthday marked by campaigners last week, ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, looks at the case of Nigerian woman Leah Sharibu, kidnapped in February, 2018, from her school…
Kidnapped Christian student killed in north-east Nigeria
Abuja, NigeriaMorning Star News Islamic State-affiliated terrorists have executed a Christian university student kidnapped earlier this month in north-east Nigeria. In a video that Site Intelligence Group reported was released on the Islamic State’s Amaq news website, a boy of indeterminate age with a pistol shoots and kills Ropvil Daciya Dalep, a member of the […]
Calls for release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu renewed ahead of her 16th birthday
Calls for the release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu – among 110 girls abducted from their school in Dapchi in February, 2018 – have been renewed ahead of her 16th birthday on Tuesday. Leah Sharibu. Sharibu was 14-years-old when she was taken from the school on 19th February by militants belonging to Boko Haram […]