In 2005, we were all talking about Darfur. Two years prior, a war of words emerged between the uprising of liberated group against the Sudanese government, who they believed were oppressing the non-Arab community. The latter’s answer to the conflict was slaughtering hundreds of innocent civilians. Eleven years later, George Clooney, along with John Prendergast and […]
Boko Haram is still terrorizing Nigeria and all we can say is #BringBackOurGirls. It’s been 10 months since they kidnapped the Chibok tribe schoolgirls and a majority of them are still being hold hostage, only a small percentage of girls have managed to escape. Three of those girls, Abigail John, Dorcas Aiden, and the third escapee who […]
Nigerian local hunters ‘vigilantes’ to fight against Boko Haram They just won’t let up. Boko Haram has attacked Nigeria again, this time they gunned for Maiduguri, a prominent city in Nigeria with a population of over 600,000. It’s being reported that on Sunday hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen launched a predawn attack and were locked […]
Over the weekend, an alleged 10-year-old Nigerian girl detonated explosives that were strapped to her body in a crowded market in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The explosives detonated as the girl was being screened with a metal detector at the market’s entrance, he said. It’s standard procedure for people to be screened before entering the market, as […]
Boko Haram, the same terrorist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last spring, has executed the “deadliest massacre” in the its history, according to Amnesty International. It is feared that over 2,000 civilians have been murdered, with the majority of them being women, children and the elderly. Many of the bodies that were found […]
A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students (11-20-years-old), according to survivors and a morgue attendant. There were over 2,000 students gathered for the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College when the […]
The Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok in April may not make it home. The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau said in a recent video that there has been no cease-fire in Nigeria (as the media has been reported) and that no agreement had been made to free the girls. […]
FROM NEWSONE.COM According to Nigerian government officials, in addition to the ceasefire, the nearly 300 schoolgirls — who were kidnapped as they took exams in Chibok — will be released, reports the BBC. Nigerian presidential aide Hassan Tukur told BBC Focus on Africa that the agreement was sealed after a month of negotiations, mediated by […]
Boko Haram has taken aim at the son of former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, and the soldier is now in recovery. The ex-officials son, Lt. Col. Adeboye Obasanjo, was shot by Islamic extremist fighters during combat in a northeastern state, Al Jazeera reports. “I got in touch with… Obasanjo and told him that I received […]
Boko Haram is still snatching children from their families as the militant group kidnapped a large number of boys this week. First they came for the girls, now Boko Haram hs shifted their focus to young men. The Islamic extremist group abducted dozens of boys and men during a raid in Northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, Reuters reports. […]
Boko Haram, the militant group, which kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, has not stopped wrecking havoc in Nigeria. According to reports, the group kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister as well as her maid, who were both snatched from the official’s home. “I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali in […]
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai is using her global influence to continue spreading awareness on the Nigerian schoolgirls still held in captivity by terrorist group Boko Haram. Although 60 of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April managed to escape Boko Haram captors, there are more than 200 schoolgirls still in captivity and Malala wants to inspire optimism for the […]
