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Originally published in Trust.org Nigeria’s military has recaptured the flashpoint town of Bama in northeast Borno state from Boko Haram and blocked the Islamist militants’ advance towards the state capital Maiduguri, a senior official said on Monday. He said government forces are also fighting a southwards push into neighbouring Adamawa […]
Northern Cameroon is more than ever in the sights of Boko Haram, as details of atrocities committed by the radical Islamic sect from neighboring Nigeria continue to emerge. The militant sect, which now controls several major Nigerian towns, has set up a caliphate with a strict implementation of sharia law. […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has declared an “Islamic Caliphate” in the predominantly Christian town of Gwoza, which it seized earlier in August and slaughtered over 100 civilians. “Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in (the town of) Gwoza and […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Suspected members of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram have taken over Gwoza, a major town in Nigeria’s north-eastern State of Borno on August 5. Details of the attack are sketchy; several bridges linking the town to Borno’s capital, Maiduguri, and to other neighbouring […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor At least 25 people were killed in Cameroon, among them a church leader, as militants carried out two spectacular attacks in the far north of Cameroon at the end of July. In one attack in the town of Kolofata, the wife of the Deputy Prime […]
By Worldwatch Monitor For the missing Nigerian girls kidnapped over 100 days ago, another trauma has emerged. Eleven of the group of grieving parents have died, many of them after heart attacks and stress-related illnesses. Some reports said that at least four fathers’ bodies were among those brought into the […]
Originally published in Christian Telegraph The United States and other western nations have ignored the religious motivation of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram and must understand the theological dynamics in Nigeria in order to curb terrorism in the western African country, the archbishop of Nigeria’s Anglican Church told Baptist […]
Originally published in Christian Today An explosion in a shopping mall in Nigeria’s capital Abuja killed at least 21 as crowds gathered to watch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup match yesterday, June 25. The Associated Press reports witnesses as saying a motorcyclist dropped the bomb at the entrance to […]
An explosion at an illegal World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people while security forces arrested a “terror kingpin” among nearly 500 people detained as suspected terrorists in the southeast of the country, police said on Wednesday (June 18, 2014) At least 26 people were […]
Originally published in Fox News Boko Haram militants dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in three villages in northeastern Nigeria and the military failed to intervene even though it was warned that an attack was imminent, witnesses said on Thursday. A community leader who witnessed the killings on […]