Nigerian Women, Girls Need Urgent Response to Boko Haram Violence
New research by Amnesty International has revealed that Boko Haram militants targeted women and girls for rape and other sexual violence - amounting to war crimes- during raids in northeast Nigeria. In February and March 2021, the rights group interviewed 22 people in a cluster of villages in northern Borno State that Boko Haram has repeatedly attacked since late 2019. Survivors and witnesses described night attacks in at least five villages in the Magumeri local government area of Borno State. Villagers said some attackers wore Nigerian military uniforms, while others wore traditional clothes. Amnesty International has urged the International Criminal Court to investigate the attacks and ensure those responsible are held accountable. The conflict in Nigeria has created a humanitarian crisis, with more than 2,7 million people now displaced.
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Brutality Against Women and Girls Needs Urgent Response - Research
AI London, 24 March 2021
Recent attacks in Borno State marked by war crimes, including rape and other sexual violence, as well as murder and mass pillage Read more »
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Nigeria:
Security Experts, Others Meet to Discuss Insurgency in North-East Nigeria
Premium Times, 24 March 2021
One of the launched reports reviewed the popular opinions towards reintegration of ex-combatants, militia and persons associated with Boko Haram. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Country Must Rethink Responses to Women Displaced By Boko Haram
The Conversation Africa, 2 February 2021
People's experiences of conflict and violence are shaped in part by sex and gender. Women and girls are especially vulnerable to the threat of sexual violence, owing to cultural… Read more »
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Nigeria:
An Exit From Boko Haram? Assessing Nigeria's Operation Safe Corridor
Crisis Group, 19 March 2021
In 2016, Nigeria launched a program to help Boko Haram defectors reintegrate into civilian life. Rare interviews with the "deradicalisation" facility's graduates reveal some… Read more »
InFocus
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The abduction of 276 girls from Chibok in Borno State, by Boko Haram militants on April 14, 2014 sparked a global outcry that gave rise to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Many y Read more »
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Boko Haram, particularly under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, has long been interested in expanding its base beyond Nigeria's north-east. Its north-west and north-central ... Read more »
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The elderly have suffered in unique ways from the Boko Haram insurgency that has raged for almost a decade in north east Nigeria, global human rights group, Amnesty International, ... Read more »
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