Dispatches: Ensure Basic Rights for Boko Haram’s Victims (HRW - Human Rights...
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) Last week, three consecutive suicide bombs bearing the hallmarks of the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram killed 55 people in Yola, Kano, and Maiduguri in Nigeria....
View ArticleTerrorism Deaths Quadruple Under Obama
The worldwide number of annual terrorist deaths has more than quadrupled since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent last year to...
View ArticleLives lost to terrorism at all-time high
Globally, from 2013 to 2014 the number of deaths due to terrorism rose by 80%, reaching the highest level ever recorded at 32,658, according to the third edition of the Global Terrorism Index Two...
View ArticleRights group asks Nigeria to ensure basic rights for Boko Haram’s victims
Nov 26, Yola: Last week, three consecutive suicide bombs bearing the hallmarks of the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram killed 55 people in Yola, Kano, and Maiduguri in Nigeria. The brutal killings...
View ArticleDeath toll rises to 22 in Nigeria suicide attack on Shiite Muslim procession
Kano: The death toll in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim procession near the northern Nigerian city of Kano has risen to 22 after one more person was confirmed dead, one of the organisers said...
View ArticleDeadliest Terror in the World: the West’s Latest Gift to Africa
Nigeria’s Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of Cameron and co’s war on Libya – and one that was perhaps...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Kills 21 in Nigeria
VOA News At least 21 people were killed and dozens were injured in a suicide attack Friday near Nigeria’s second-largest city of Kano. A suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of the annual Shia...
View ArticleNigeria: Boko Haram cannot be crushed by December
Lagos, Nigeria: Nigeria's military cannot meet the president's December deadline to crush Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, and Nigerians must expect suicide bombings to continue, a government spokesman...
View ArticleOf Climate Change and Caliphates
How jihadist groups like Boko Haram and ISIS profit from global warming. The core slogan of the Islamic State, “Remain and Expand,” speaks powerfully to people forced off their land and struggling just...
View ArticleTreasury Sanctions Senior Boko Haram Leaders (US Department of the Treasury)
(Source: US Department of the Treasury) Action Targets Two Individuals Responsible for Facilitating Terrorism and Violence WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the...
View ArticleIslamic State Targeting Africa: Top Africom Commander Warns VOA
Carla Babb STUTTGART, GERMANY— The Syria-based Islamic State group has expanded its reach in Africa, courting Islamist extremists from Nigeria to Somalia while establishing a major nerve center close...
View ArticleBan calls for international aid for African communities attacked by Boko...
(Source: UN - United Nations) 2 December 2015 - United Nations Secretary-General today called on the international community to provide urgent support for humanitarian aid to communities hit by the...
View ArticleBan calls for international aid for African communities attacked by Boko Haram
'>Monde Kingsley Nfor/IRIN' border=1> Print 2 December 2015 United Nations Secretary-General today called on the international community to provide urgent support for humanitarian aid to...
View ArticleCameroon: Army raid kills 100 Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages
In a raid backed by an anti-Boko Haram task force, Cameroon’s army killed at least 100 Boko Haram fighters and freed 900 hostages on Wednesday, the army and defense ministry said. Flags belonging to...
View ArticleTriple suicide attack leaves 30 dead on Lake Chad island
(From agencies) Some 30 people have been killed and 80 others injured as three suicide bombers attacked the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of Lake Chad, Reuters reports, citing...
View ArticleRemember Boko Haram’s victims, too
On Nov. 13, people from every corner of the world reeled over the horrific attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured 350 more. Millions filtered their Facebook profile pictures with the blue,...
View ArticleU.N.: Kidnapped schoolgirls likely dead
A report from the National Post reveals a statement from Zeid Raad al-Hussein, a U.N. human rights official, to the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, that areas of Nigeria have been recaptured...
View ArticleMortuary records: Nigeria’s military killing thousands of civilians, many...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Shedding stark light on Nigeria’s escalating war with Islamic militants, mortuary records from a single Nigerian hospital show the number of detainees who died in military custody more...
View ArticleDeath Toll In Nigeria Mosque Bombing Tops 100
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — More than 102 people were killed in the bomb explosions at the central mosque in this city, said a hospital worker. A mortuary attendant at the Murtala specialist hospital Kano,...
View ArticleNigeria car bomb death toll up to 19 dead
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from a car bomb that exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital rose to at least 19 overnight with 66 people wounded, police said Friday from the city, which...
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