Nigeria: Huge Numbers of Displaced Creates Crisis By Lekan Oyekanmi, The Associated Press 2 December 2014 After the Nigerian government soldiers fled and the Islamic insurgents arrived in his village with guns blazing, Peter Fabian ran away along with dozens of other villagers. "Our homes have been burned, our churches," Fabian said. "Many of our brothers have been killed." Arriving in a camp here with all his worldly possessions reduced to everything

Nigeria: 2 Teen Female Suicide Bombers Kill 30 By Haruna Umar, Associated Press 25 November 2014   BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- Two teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, according to witnesses and a security official. Boko Haram, Nigeria's Islamic extremist rebels, are suspected of the bombings, as they have carried out many similar attacks.

Nigeria’s Dangerous 2015 Elections: Limiting the Violence By International Crisis Group 21 November 2014 [Full Report]   [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF4XIWB8k[/embed]   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Nigeria’s presidential, parliamentary and state gubernatorial and assembly elections, scheduled for February 2015, will be more contentious than usual. Tensions within and between the two major political parties, competing claims

Nigeria army 'recaptures Mubi from Boko Haram' BBC 13 November, 2014 The Nigerian army has recaptured the north-eastern town of Mubi from militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the state governor has said. A resident of the town confirmed this to the BBC, saying he had seen the bodies of many Boko Haram fighters. Mubi was the biggest town under the group's control and is the first it has lost since August, when it declared a caliphate in areas it had

Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria force 13,000 to flee to Cameroon By UNHCR 11 November 2014 GENEVA, November 11 (UNHCR) –The UN refugee agency on Tuesday reported that thousands of people continue to flee to Cameroon to escape attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in north-east Nigeria. "According to Cameroonian authorities, some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from Adamawa state after insurgents attacked and captured the town of Mubi in late October.

Regional leaders step up Boko Haram fight with troops, command centre By Bate Felix, Reuters 8 October 2014 Niamey (Reuters) – Leaders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Benin on Tuesday announced plans to step up the fight against Boko Haram with an additional battalion and a command centre to tackle the militants whose insurgency has spread beyond Nigeria, a statement said. Boko Haram’s violent five-year campaign for an Islamic state has killed thousands

The Boko Haram insurgency, by the numbers By Nathaniel Allen, Peter M. Lewis and Hilary Matfess 6 October 2014 The abduction in April of nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok, a northeastern Nigerian village, by fighters of the extremist group Boko Haram received wide attention from social media campaigners and the news media. But events in Nigeria have been overshadowed in recent months by news from Iraq, Gaza and Ukraine. The escalating violence

ISIS, Boko Haram and Batman By Thomas L Friedman/ The New York Times 5 October 2014 WHAT’S the right strategy for dealing with a world increasingly divided between zones of order and disorder? For starters, you’d better understand the forces of disorder, like Boko Haram or the Islamic State. These are gangs of young men who are telling us in every way possible that our rules no longer apply. Reason cannot touch them, because rationalism never

Nigeria's president says still working to free abducted girls Reuters 24 September 2014 Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that authorities were still working to free some 200 girls abducted from a school by Boko Haram militants in April. Jonathan has been criticized at home and abroad for his slow response to the kidnapping in the rural northeast and for his inability to quell the violence

Boko Haram Seizes Towns in Northeast Nigeria Ibrahim Abdulaziz and Michelle Faul, The Associated Press 7 September 2014  YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, has seized more towns along Nigeria's northeastern border with Cameroon and is adopting a strategy of encouraging civilians to stay, witnesses said Sunday, as the militants pursue their new aim to carve out an "Islamic caliphate" under their black and white