END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Acutely malnourished child Sacdiyo Mohamed, 9 months old, is treated at Banadir hospital in Somalia on Saturday. Somalia’s government has declared the drought there a national disaster. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP The world is facing its greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945, says the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, Stephen […]
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Female suicide bombers kill 58 in Nigerian camp – CNN.com
At least 58 people were killed and another 78 injured when two female bombers detonated their suicide vests, according to emergency relief officials. The victims were in a camp for people who had been displaced by Boko Haram violence in Nigeria’s Borno State. As horrendous as the attack was, it could have been worse. One […]
Bride-To-Be Sent To Prison A Week To Her Wedding | INFORMATION NIGERIA
A 33- year- old woman Olawunmi Oyebode has been arrested and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri for assault. This happened one week to her wedding in Lagos State , western Nigeria . Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ Her journey to prison started after she was arraigned before a Magistrates ’ Court sitting in Isolo […]
Boko Haram pledges allegiance to the Islamic State
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria’s general election in a new video released Tuesday, after two suicide attacks in the northeast blamed on the Islamists killed 38 people. Video provided by AFP Newslook Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau makes a statement at an undisclosed location in this screengrab taken from video on […]
Black Lives in Nigeria Should Also Matter – The Root
Thousands of Black Lives Mattered in Nigeria, but the World Didn’t Pay Attention As the world mourns for Paris, we must also decry Boko Haram’s violence. Local residents stand by the wreckage of a car that was blown up by suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri on March 25, 2014, […]
Charlie Hebdo: Why Nigeria’s Boko Haram Violence Gets Less Attention – The Atlantic
Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters As many as a million people, joined by 40 world leaders, filled the streets of Paris on Sunday in solidarity after two separate terrorist attacks claimed 17 innocent lives last week. The day before, more than 3,000 miles to the south, a girl believed to be around 10 approached the entrance to a […]