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Tag: Boko Haram Insurgency

January 14, 2020

African Stories

The terrorist group Boko Haram has exploited high unemployment to recruit new fighters in Cameroon along the Nigerian Border…In 2003, then-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Child Right Act into law in 2003, to preserve the rights of children and protect them from exploitative labor. But 17 years later, millions of Nigerian children still take on physically challenging work

December 25, 2019

Cameroonian Girls on Nigeria Border Married...

The parents of Cameroonian girls married off their daughters to escape Bono Haram Insurgents

October 14, 2019

Former Boko Haram Fighters Seek Mental...

Nigerian men who have left the Islamist militant group Boko Haram are finding it difficult to return to civilian life. They face stigma and many turn to substance abuse to cope with their experiences

October 10, 2019

Thousands Missing in Nigeria After Decade...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says their highest caseload of missing persons in the world is currently in Nigeria. Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported as missing in connection with the 10-year-old insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram

April 16, 2019

Students, Teachers Avoid Cameroon Border Schools...

This week marks five years since Boko Haram militants kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls from the village of Chibok. The kidnappings spread fear across the border in Cameroon, where hundreds of schools closed. Authorities have since ordered schools to reopen, but many students and teachers refuse to return

April 6, 2019

Boko Haram Militants Target Civilians in...

U.N. officials say the spike in violence and displacement is related to increased activity by Boko Haram or Boko Haram-affiliated armed groups in the Lake Chad Basin. They report 88 civilians were killed last month alone, compared to a total of 107 civilian deaths during all of 2018

March 27, 2019

112 Abducted Nigerian School Girls Still...

More than 100 of the Chibok schoolgirls remain in captivity, nearly five years after Boko Haram militants in Nigeria abducted them from their school. President Muhammadu Buhari promised to make the rescue of the girls, and other abductees a top priority. Some have been released. But advocacy groups say Buhari’s government, in its focus on the economy, has largely forgotten the girls who are still being held

February 2, 2019

Fleeing From Boko Haram Nigerian Refugees...

Around the village of Goura, in the far north-east of Cameroon, small shelters, some covered in the white sheeting provided by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), dot the landscape. Using a brief lull in fighting, refugees dash back across the border to Nigeria and carry back their belongings

December 11, 2018

UN: More Than 13 Million Nigerian...

A survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicates there’s been a marked rise of Nigerian children who are not attending school: from 10.5 million to 13.2 million – the highest in the world

December 3, 2018

Boko Haram: Journey From Evil

With 2018 first approaching,it’s time to look back at the year that was most eventful

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