Nigeria: Amnesty International Under Fire As More Groups Demand Expulsion

25 March 2017

More groups have thrown their weight behind recent calls for the sack of Amnesty International from the country owing to its claimed disreputable role in the current fight against Boko Haram in the North Eastern Nigeria.

This is even as leading human rights group, Save Africa and Restoration Agenda (SARA) has commended protesters who came out en mass during the week to call for the sack of Amnesty International and also sustain the pressure until the foreign NGO leaves Nigeria.

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