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 […]
Hungry and malnourished, north-east Nigeria endures humanitarian crisis
Damaturu, Nigeria Reuters Lying on a small bed next to her mother, 14-month-old Aisha Usman stares blankly, her eyes sunk in their sockets and rib cage visible. She is the latest arrival at a treatment centre for severely malnourished children in Nigeria’s northeast, where a long running Islamist insurgency has uprooted millions, forcing farmers to […]
As Nigeria votes, family and churches urge candidates to remember Christian teen Leah Sharibu
World Watch Monitor One year since the Christian teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted from her boarding school in north-eastern Nigeria by an Islamist group, a coalition of groups have called on presidential candidates to tell Nigerians how they plan to secure her release. “We are urging the political parties and their candidates that now that the campaigns […]
Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to “#BringBackOurLeah”
World Watch Monitor The parents of the Nigerian girl, Leah Sharibu, held by Boko Haram, say they have renewed hope that she might safely return home after a short audio recording her kidnappers released last week. In the 35 seconds-long recording, the Christian teenager asks for help for her family and herself, calling on Nigeria’s president […]
Nigerian Christian schoolgirl ‘escaped’, only to be sent back to Boko Haram
World Watch Monitor The only Christian among the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last month by Boko Haram ran away from her kidnappers but was caught and brought back three days later, according to fellow captives, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Leah Sherubu, 15, and two other girls walked for three days and, hungry and exhausted, asked for help from […]
Fears of ‘another Chibok’ after Boko Haram school attack
World Watch Monitor Fears are growing that the girls still missing after Boko Haram attacked a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Yobe on Monday night have been taken by the militant group. The attack comes almost four years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, in neighbouring Borno State, a case […]
FOOD CRISIS: DISPLACED BY BOKO HARAM’S VIOLENCE, NIGERIANS FINALLY GET FOOD TO PREVENT FAMINE
World Watch Monitor reports from Nigeria…