Tag: Adamawa

Nigeria Christians want International Criminal Court to investigate Air Force ‘complicity’ in ‘genocide’

March 13, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Six Christian communities in north-eastern Nigeria have announced their intention to take the national Air Force to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its alleged bombing of their communities in December. Lawaru, Dong, Nzoruwe, Pulum, Kodomti and Shaforon – in the Demsa and Numan Local Government Areas of the Adamawa . . . Read More

Protest organiser arrested as Nigerian Christians call for end to herdsmen killings

March 12, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria

Police in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa State last week arrested the organiser of a protest march against the continued killings of predominantly Christian famers by mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen. Mijah Stanley had called on “all pro-democracy and civil rights organisations, faith-based and community-based organisations, as well as other Nigerians” to rally . . . Read More

Nigerian bishops accuse government of failing to protect citizens from ‘terrorist’ herdsmen

February 9, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Taraba, Terrorism

Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have told President Muhammadu Buhari that attacks attributed to members of the Fulani pastoralist tribe have been carried out by “terrorists masquerading as herdsmen” and accused the government of being “incapable or unwilling” to protect citizens from them. A delegation of 11 bishops delivered a strongly worded . . . Read More

Nigerian Air Force complicit in massacre of Christian villagers, says Amnesty

February 2, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Gombe, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Fighter jets sent by the Nigerian Air Force fired rockets at villages where Fulani herdsmen were attacking Christian residents, according to a report released this week by Amnesty International. The Nigerian Air Force confirmed that jets were despatched, but said they were instructed to fire only “warning shots” to deter . . . Read More

Fulani herdsmen ‘terrorists’ ‘pampered’ in Nigeria’s Middle Belt

January 15, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Taraba

A spate of violence attributed to ethnic Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria has seen dozens killed since the turn of year. In Benue State, violence has claimed 80 lives and forced 80,000 to flee. The funerals on 11 January for 73 of the victims in Makurdi, Benue’s capital, were broadcast . . . Read More

Nigeria’s New Year begins with attacks on Christians

January 4, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kwara, Muhammadu Buhari, Omuku, Rivers State

In Nigeria, the New Year celebrations were marked by incidents which claimed dozen lives across the country. According to local sources and media, the attacks were carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen or Muslim youths, who targeted Christian worshippers. The attacks affected the volatile Middle Belt states (Benue, Kaduna), epicenter . . . Read More

Nigeria: Government failure and the spread of Fulani herdsmen attacks in Adamawa state

December 11, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto

”I watched helplessly as the Fulani herdsmen killed people and burnt houses. They did this with glee on their faces. Numan [Local Government Area] and its environs belong to us. If the government cannot protect us, then we have no choice but to protect our land, our heritage and the . . . Read More

Boko Haram: 381 killed in Nigeria and Cameroon since April

September 5, 2017 Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Far North, Lake Chad, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have claimed the lives of at least 381 civilians in the five months since the start of April 2017, with casualties more than double the previous five months, says Amnesty International in a new report. The radical Islamist group had . . . Read More

Boko Haram defector calls others to repent and leave

September 4, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Yobe

A Boko Haram defector has called on his former fellow fighters to repent and leave the Islamist group. Bana Umar, from Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Banki, was 27 when he joined Boko Haram in 2014, the same year the group kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from their dormitory in the town . . . Read More

Displaced by Boko Haram’s violence, Nigerians finally get food to prevent famine

August 4, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, IDPs, Nigeria, UN, Yobe

Food aid has reached 15,000 families in Northeast Nigeria who live in famine-like conditions. (Photo: Open Doors International)

The current crisis in northeast Nigeria has been called the “greatest crisis on the African continent“. More than five million Nigerians live in famine-like conditions in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, the epicentre of the eight years-long Boko Haram insurgency. According to the World Food Programme, the ongoing insecurity has . . . Read More

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