It’s been more than two years since 218 girls were abducted from Chibok, Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Activists from the group Bring Back Our Girls said Wednesday that one of the girls has been located and reunited with her family.
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Two years ago, extremist Islamist group Boko Haram orchestrated the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, presumably forcing them into sexual slavery as they have done with so many other women. Despite the efforts of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, most are still missing. And those who’ve been rescued? They are…
Two female suicide bombers have reportedly killed at least 56 people in a refugee camp near Maiduguri, Nigeria, the Associated Press is reporting. The camp contains some 50,000 people who were made homeless fleeing the terrorist group Boko Haram.
In an absolutely vital move towards preventing the near-imminent extinction of wild African elephants, a senior U.S. government official has confirmed that China plans to ban the commercial trade of ivory at some point within the next year.
As South Carolina moves to take down the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the statehouse, the national debate surrounding the flag grows to a new height. Among all of the impassioned arguments for and against removing this contentious symbol from the public space, it is strange that lawmakers and the public…
Disturbing news out of Nigeria: of the 234 women recently rescued by the Nigerian army after being abducted by Boko Haram last year, a staggering number of them—214—are pregnant.
Earlier this week, as the Nigerian military approached their camp in the Sambisa Forest, Boko Haram fighters stoned some of their captives to death, survivors told the Associated Press. Several women were crushed by a Nigerian military armored car, and, later, three were killed by a land mine as they walked to freedom.
The Nigerian army said today that it rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area of the Sambisa Forest where Boko Haram has a stronghold. The army says it “cannot confirm” that the rescued girls include any of the 276 students who were kidnapped from Chibok in April of last year.
A new report from Amnesty International says that terrorist group Boko Haram is committing war crimes in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 2,000 people in the first half of 2014 alone and kidnapping thousands more. Through eyewitness testimony, they’ve learned that the women and girls abducted by the group are…
A study by the Nigerian-based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has found that the country's police force has demanded "kickbacks" and "sexual favors" from police widows whose husbands were killed fighting Boko Haram.
A young girl suspected to have been planning a suicide bombing was beaten to death and then set on fire in a Nigerian vegetable market. The girl, who was traveling with another young woman, refused to be searched at the market's entrance which alarmed the community. As the Guardian notes, there have been a rash of…
The New York Times reports that an explosion today in northern Nigeria was the result of a suicide bombing carried out by a girl of around 10 years old. The girl, who is still unidentified, had the explosives hidden underneath her veil when she walked in to a busy market in Maiduguri, a Boko Haram stronghold. The…
Amnesty International is calling this the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram: according to new reports, as many as 2,000 people are dead in the Nigerian border town of Baga, where Islamic extremists drove into town on Wednesday with grenades and assault rifles in their prolonged attempt to wrest control…
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In news that sadly does not come as much of a surprise, AFP has obtained a video of a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau who states that the 200 plus schoolgirls who were kidnapped in April from Chibok have been "married off" to Boko Haram fighters.
Last Friday, it was announced that Nigerian officials and leaders of Boko Haram had reached a cease-fire deal in Chad that could potentially lead to the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April. But various sources have become increasingly doubtful of Boko Haram's representative—a Saudi Arabian man…
It's been over six months since insurgent group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 female students from their boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria and now, after much negotiation, it seems as though the girls might finally be returned home.
