How Botswana Can Help Students Study Safely in Wartime
(HRW) – In May 2014, students at the Sabongari Primary School in Gwoza, in northeastern Nigeria, stopped going to school. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of members of the Islamist armed [...]
Hundreds of Abducted Children Still Missing in Nigeria
(HRW) – In March 2015, Boko Haram fighters fleeing security forces from Chad and Niger escaped with some women and hundreds of children abducted from Damasak in Borno State. At least 300 of [...]
Chibok girls: 82 are free but the tough road to reintegration now begins
(International Business Times) – News that 82 of the Chibok girls had been freed by Boko Haram in early May was met with jubilation throughout Nigeria and across the world. But now, the [...]
Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
(New York Times) – When the boys of Baga think back to home on the shores of Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, they remember a life that was not hard on any human. At dusk, fishermen cast [...]
Escaping Boko Haram: The mother who hid her child in a ditch for nine months
(The Irish Times) – When she heard reports that Boko Haram was approaching her home town three years ago, Zainabeu Hamayaji had to think quickly. The Islamist militant group – whose name [...]
Nigeria’s Boko Haram-fighting vigilantes losing heart
(The Irish Times) – In the shade of a porch outside a long, low, run-down building, a group of middle-aged men sit playing cards, like they have on many afternoons over the last four years. [...]
Health workers under attack: four personal accounts of working in a war zone
(OCHA) – Attacks against health workers in conflict areas are on the rise. According to the World Health Organisation, 979 health workers were injured or killed in attacks in 2016, an [...]
Cameroon: Mass Forced Return of Nigerian Refugees
(HRW) – Cameroon’s military has carried out a mass forced return of 100,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in an effort to stem the spread of Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said in a report [...]
More than half of schools in Boko Haram’s region are shut, UNICEF says
(Reuters) – More than half the schools in the state at the epicentre of Nigeria’s conflict with Islamist militant group Boko Haram are still closed, the United Nations’ children agency said [...]
Why Is the U.S. Still Supporting Countries that Recruit Child Soldiers?
(Newsweek) – The use of child soldiers remains alarmingly common in conflicts across the world. From Syria and Iraq to Nigeria and South Sudan, multiple governments and armed groups are [...]
