Archives: Nigeria

20 Million People Could ‘Starve to Death’ in Next Six Months

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan…

Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied

TeleSur | - - "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with…

People don’t join Terrorist Groups b/c of Religion: Are Recruited by Family & Friends

Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join…

Why did Nigerian Military attack Muslim Protest Movement when violent Boko Haram is Still at Large?

By Allan Christelow | (Informed Comment) | - - On December 12-13, 2015 Nigerian security forces carried out an attack against the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in the city of Zaria.…

Kaj Larsen Gives a Debriefing on Boko Haram (Vice)

Nigeria’s Boko Haram is about Vengeance, not Islam

By Gregory Alonso Pirio | (Informed Comment) | - - So many people are scratching their heads as they search for an explanation for the extreme acts of violence meted out by…

Can Nigeria’s new Muslim President defeat Boko Haram Extremists?

By Lisa Vives | -- NEW YORK (IPS) - Muhammadu Buhari, his hand on the Holy Book, was sworn in as Nigeria’s president at an open-air ceremony this past Friday in the…

Boko Haram Menaces Cameroon Schoolchildren after Massacre in Nigeria

By Ngala Killian Chimtom MAROUA, Far North Region, Jan 14 2015 (IPS) - “I’d quit my job before going to work in a place like that.” That is how a primary school…

Do Nigerians Matter to World Press? – 2,000 feared dead in Boko Haram Attacks

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in Nigeria from what has been described as Boko Haram's deadliest attack amid ongoing bloodshed a UN…

Americans 64 times more likely to be Murdered than die in Terrorism

By Juan Cole | -- The Institute for Economics and Peace in the UK has released a report on terrorism in 2013, which it maintains was substantially up. There are virtues of…

Gaza Crisis Spills Into Nigeria

by Allan Christelow On Friday, July 25, in the city of Zaria, a procession of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria came into conflict with Nigerian army troops. The procession had gathered for…

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See

By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary school in the town of Chibok, in…

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria's northeast, a senator said Wednesday, as police offered $300,000…

Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Hunted Children & the Problem of Fundamentalism in Africa

(By Juan Cole) The horrific story of the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from their school in Borno Province, northeastern Nigeria, by the Boko Haram terrorist group has again underlined the problem…

Gates worries Pakistan Violence blocks Polio Eradication, But is CIA Partly to Blame?

(By Juan Cole) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has done an amazing job in targeting diseases for eradication, and the world is very close to getting rid of polio altogether, in…