Recognize ‘enormous challenges’ facing northern Nigeria to forge …
WEBMay 4, 2022 · The “enormous challenges” faced by the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, which include a continuing terrorist insurgency, need to be recognized by the international community to create what...
Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued …
WEBMay 21, 2024 · At least 1,400 students have been taken from Nigerian schools since the 2014 kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants in the village of Chibok in Borno state shocked the world. In recent years, abductions have been concentrated in the country’s conflict-battered northwestern and central regions, where dozens of …
Nigeria: crisis in northeast will worsen without urgent help ... - UN …
WEBJun 21, 2022 · Well over eight million people are in need of assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states, and an estimated 600,000 face emergency levels of food insecurity because of extremist violence...
In northeast Nigeria, those who fled conflict are being returned to ...
WEBApr 23, 2024 · The persistent violence in Borno has forced more than 1.5 million people to abandon their homes, leading to the depopulation of rural areas — a situation the government seeks to overturn through an IDP resettlement initiative across the state as part of its counter-insurgency goals.
Fighting to survive: Conflict in northeast Nigeria | Borno state
WEBJun 5, 2019 · Conflict has ravaged the northeastern Nigerian states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe for a decade, displacing more than 2 million people and leaving nearly 8 million reliant on humanitarian assistance. This photo story describes the toll the conflict has taken, particularly on women.
At least 200 people, mostly women and children, abducted by …
WEBMar 7, 2024 · At least 35,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million displaced due to the violence by the militant Boko Haram group and a breakaway faction backed by the Islamic State group. Nigerian security forces fighting the insurgents are overstretched as they also battle dozens of armed groups attacking remote communities in …
Militants kill 11 farmers in Nigeria’s north, raising fresh concerns ...
WEBNov 6, 2023 · Locals and authorities in Nigeria's Borno state say Islamic rebels have killed 11 farmers and abducted several others during an attack on Sunday that was the latest of several to threaten food supplies in the hard-hit region.
Suspected ISWAP militants kill 25 in Nigeria's Borno state, …
WEBMAIDUGURI, July 26 (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two villages in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency, a police...
OPED: With a long-running armed conflict in the Northeast, …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · UNICEF has reported that only around 25% of children in Borno State are in school, a devastating failure. Finally, in its rehabilitation programmes and other support to people affected by the conflict, the Nigerian authorities must ensure gender equity.
WEBBorno state has been the epicentre of fighting between Nigeria and jihadist insur-gents for thirteen years, and during that period has seen the most war-related dis-placement in the country’s north east. As recently as July 2022, Borno’s capital, Maidu-guri, was home to more than 500,000 IDPs.