16 million pro-ISIS Muslims in Naija
By Nafata Bamaguje A recent Pew research poll of eleven countries showed that ISIS has its highest support among Nigerian Muslims. According to the , 20% of Muslims in Nigeria support the mass...
View ArticleWeakened Boko Haram sends girl bombers against Cameroon civilians
By Joe Penney KERAWA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist insurgents who have repeatedly...
View ArticleNigeria marks 2nd anniversary of 276 girls being kidnapped
LAGOS, Nigeria — With marches, chants and prayers, Nigerians marked Thursday’s painful second anniversary of the mass abduction of the Chibok girls, still angry and frustrated the teenagers have not...
View ArticleAngry Nigeria marks second anniversary of kidnap of Chibok girls
This image from a video shows what the Nigerian government has said is a "proof of life" of 15 of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram two years ago. (AFP) LAGOS, Nigeria — With...
View ArticleYoung Arabs reject ISIS in new survey
The overwhelming majority of young Arabs don’t support ISIS – even if the jihadis use less violence – and believe the terror group will fail in its quest for a caliphate, a new poll finds. Only 13...
View ArticleNigeria marks 2nd anniversary of kidnap of Chibok girls
Click photo to enlarge People march during a protest calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school who were abducted two years ago, in Abuja, Nigeria,...
View ArticleKidnapped to kill: How Boko Haram is turning girls into weapons
Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. "They came to us to pick us," Fati recalls. "They would ask, 'Who wants to be a suicide bomber?'...
View ArticleBoko Haram send 'proof of life' video of Chibok girls: CNN
By Aminu Abubakar, with Phil Hazlewood in Lagos Soldiers from the Nigerian Army stand outside a school in Chibok on March 25, 2016. By Stefan Heunis (AFP/File) Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram has...
View Article'Je Suis Le Monde'
Co-authored by Kilike Steyn Last week, in "Je Suis Turkey," I reflected on Western concerns for white, Western Christians but the lack of Western concern for olive- skinned, Turkish Muslims. I...
View ArticleWhat Is Boko Haram?
VOA News Boko Haram is an Islamic sect that believes politics in northern Nigeria has been seized by a group of corrupt, false Muslims, according to...
View ArticleBoko Haram using more children as 'suicide bombers': UN
Boko Haram child "suicide bombings" have surged 11-fold in West Africa in the last year, with children as young as eight, mostly girls, detonating bombs in schools and markets, a leading charity has...
View ArticleThey were freed from Boko Haram's rape camps. But their nightmare isn't over
Maiduguri, Nigeria: For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence,...
View ArticleChild suicide bombers increase 11 fold in West Africa
Boko Haram child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold in West Africa over the last year, Unicef said on Tuesday. There were 44 child suicide bombings in West Africa last year, up from four in 2014,...
View ArticleWeakened Boko Haram sends girl bombers against Cameroon
Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against the Boko Haram group that has repeatedly targeted his home town in remote northern Cameroon. While the threat...
View ArticleThe real message of the Chibok girls
(CNN)Let's face it: tragedies that occur in Africa don't often capture the world's attention. It is a shameful reality. This time, however, it was different. When women in Nigeria spoke out two years...
View ArticleEditorial: New depths of depravity
Many Americans have watched the horrific videos of Islamic State zealots proudly beheading their chosen enemies — those of their captives whose deaths are deemed useful to the terrorists’ political,...
View ArticleThey were freed from Boko Haram's rape camps, but their nightmare isn't over
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence,...
View ArticleHow The Dying Boko Haram Misused Female Captives
By Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai True to his promise the government of Nigeria under the leadership of General Muhammadu Buhari has begun cutting the Boko Harram forces to size in Nigeria and neighboring...
View ArticleHow Boko Haram gets abducted women to be suicide bombers
Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy’s head from behind, to minimise struggling. “If you cut from the back of the neck, they die faster,”...
View ArticleHow Boko Haram trains abducted women to be suicide bombers
Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy’s head from behind, to minimise struggling. “If you cut from the back of the neck, they die faster,”...
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