(UN News) – Borno, along with Nigeria’s northern states of Adamawa and Yobe, have been under states of emergency since May 2013 as the army fights Islamist Boko Haram rebels. The region has [...]
On March 16, 2022, Watchlist, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and the Alliance’s Task Force on Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG) published [...]
(The Guardian) – At least 74 people have been killed in three weekend attacks in Nigeria’s restive north-east, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of [...]
(UN News) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the brutal slaying on Tuesday of dozens of students at a college in north-eastern Nigeria and voiced the hope that the [...]
(Huffington Post) – After Pakistan, Nigeria and South Sudan, a fourth country has now become the most recent victim of heinous terrorist attacks on students and educational [...]
(Amnesty International) – Two and a half years since 219 Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, sparking a global outcry and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, there has [...]
In May 2017, Watchlist participated in a series of events at the annual World Health Assembly, including a side-event on May 22 focused on attacks on health care entitled: “Attacks on Healthcare. [...]
(BBC News) – At least 29 students have been killed after suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a boarding school in north-east Nigeria. According to the BBC the remote school in Yobe [...]
(UN News) – The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the attack on several villages in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday that led to the death of more than 150 people. [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – In his Annual report on children and armed conflict covering the year 2015, the UN Secretary-General expressed his shock at the scale of grave violations committed against [...]
