Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘abducts more women and girls’
(BBC) – Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say. The abductions have not been [...]
Ban urges global community to ‘never forget’ Nigerian girls on anniversary of abduction
(UN News Centre) – On the one-year anniversary of their abduction by the extremist group Boko Haram, the kidnapped girls of Chibok, Nigeria must not be forgotten, United [...]
Nigerian soldiers rescue 150 more women and girls from Boko Haram
(The Guardian) – Up to 150 more women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria’s military said – amid reports that some of the women [...]
U.S. indicts Borno Govt. over use of child soldiers
( Premium Times)- Despite efforts by Nigeria’s central government to combat human trafficking and servitude, the Borno State government in the country’s north east, plagued by Boko Haram [...]
Police: Girl suicide bomber kills 5, injures 41 in Boko Haram bus station attack in Nigeria
(AP) – Two suicide bombers carried out separate attacks Tuesday that killed five people in Damaturu, a town in northeastern Nigeria, police and witnesses said. In one attack, a girl bomber [...]
Boko Haram violence displaces 1.4 million children in Nigeria and beyond – UNICEF
(UN News Centre) – The number of attacks by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and neighbouring countries has risen, and half a million children have had to flee to safety in the past five [...]
Boko Haram’s suicide bomber girls often unaware they’re carrying bombs: UN expert
(AFP) – Many of the young girls Boko Haram sends out as suicide bombers in Nigeria and neighbouring countries are probably unaware that they will be blown up, a UN expert said Tuesday. Boko [...]
Boko Haram violence forces 1 million children from school
(UN News Centre) – Violence and attacks against civilian populations in northeastern Nigeria and its neighbouring countries have forced “a staggering” one million children out of school in [...]
Nigeria: United Nations Experts to Assess Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women and Children Freed from Boko Haram
(UNOG) – Three United Nations human rights experts will visit Nigeria from 18 to 22 January 2016 to examine the measures to assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of the women and [...]
Girls released from Boko Haram captivity rejected by society – new report
(International-Alert) – Girls and women kidnapped by Nigeria’s insurgent group, Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-daʻwa wal-Jihād (JAS), commonly known as Boko Haram, face mistrust and [...]
