UNICEF Nigeria Welcomes Release of Child Boko Haram Suspects
(Al Jazeera) – Nine years of war against Boko Haram in northern Nigeria has taken a toll on young people. The Nigerian Army has released a group of children in Borno State after the [...]
Preventing Boko Haram Abductions of Schoolchildren in Nigeria
(International Crisis Group) – What’s new? In February, a faction of the jihadist Boko Haram movement, seized 113 children from Dapchi in north east Nigeria. It later released 107 of them. [...]
Nigeria: Starving Women Raped by Soldiers and Militia Who Claim to be Rescuing Them
(Amnesty International) – Thousands of women and girls who survived the brutal rule of the Boko Haram armed group have since been further abused by the Nigerian security forces who claim to [...]
Dozens Killed in Suspected Boko Haram Attack in Nigeria
(Al Jazeera) – At least 31 people have been killed in a twin suicide bomb attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters on a town in northeast Nigeria, according to local sources. Two blasts [...]
Northeast Nigeria Threatened by Critical Food Insecurity
(Al Jazeera) – Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, has been the epicentre of key events and changes in northeast Nigeria during the last decade. The city witnessed the birth of Boko [...]
Watchlist MRM Trainings in DRC this July
On 9-18 July, Watchlist conducted a field mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the objective to deliver trainings to civil society organizations in Goma on the UN-led [...]
Nigeria kidnap: Schoolchildren ‘scared’ to go to class
(BBC) – Nigeria is ready to talk to Islamist militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 abducted girls, cabinet minister Tanimu Turaki has said.Their capture has raised questions [...]
Some abducted schoolgirls may never return – Nigerian ex-president
(Reuters) – Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in some of the most [...]
Protecting Children from Extreme Violence: Watchlist Attends Wilton Park Conference
From October 3 to 5, Watchlist Executive Director Eva Smets participated in a conference organized by the Paris Principles Steering Group at Wilton Park, United Kingdom, entitled “Protecting [...]
Time to investigate abuses in Nigeria
(IRIN) – Rights groups in Nigeria are calling for an independent investigation into evidence of abuses as video footage obtained by human rights group Amnesty International appears to show [...]
