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In Nigeria, More Attacks on Militants
Military officials said air and ground assaults were launched against suspected bases of the Boko Haram Islamist group at Nigeria’s northeastern edge and in a forest south of the city of Maiduguri,...
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Nigeria’s President Gives Military More Power in Struggle Against Militants
Troops have already begun deploying in the wake of a speech by the president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday night declaring a state of emergency in parts of the country’s north, following weeks of...
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Nigeria: State of Emergency Declared
Admitting that Islamist extremists now control some of his nation’s villages and towns, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday across Nigeria’s troubled northeast,...
View ArticleMama’s Gift of Freedom
My beau and I had been in love since our college freshman year and by our senior year he proposed. I informed my parents. It was finals week and we were in the library when I opened my dad’s letter:...
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Bodies Pour In as Nigeria Hunts for Islamists
Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. “They were not properly shot,” recalled a security official here. “I had to call the J.T.F.” — the military’s joint task force — “and they gunned them down.”...
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Late Goal Lifts Nigeria
Ahmed Musa’s late goal delivered a 1-0 win for Nigeria over host Kenya and put the team at the top of its World Cup qualifying group. Malawi earlier was held to a 0-0 draw at home by Namibia, opening...
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In Nigeria, ‘Killing People Without Asking Who They Are’
“As soon as they see you with clothing like this, they shoot,” said Abukar Ari, a Koranic teacher in a long robe who said he had fled across the border from Nigeria two weeks before. “They don’t ask...
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Tahiti Manages a Goal at the Confederations Cup
Tahiti avoided humiliation by scoring a goal in a 6-1 loss to Nigeria on Monday at the Confederations Cup in Belohorizonte, Brazil. Jonathan Tehau headed in a goal early in the second half at Mineirao...
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Tahiti’s Miracle (Almost) in Minas Gerais
On the bus, a couple of dozen young men in lurid red shirts, imprinted with white floral patterns, peered out warily. This was Tahiti’s national soccer team, in Brazil for the Confederations Cup....
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9 Students Killed at School in Nigeria
The fighting in the northeast has also raised fears of a food shortage. Government officials warned Tuesday that Islamic militants had driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria,...
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Spain Crushes Tahiti in Confederations Cup
Fernando Torres missed a penalty late in the match but scored four goals. David Villa added three goals, David Silva had two and Juan Mata had one. The Tahitians, who were cheered throughout by the...
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Senegal looking more vulnerable to extremism, instability
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREDAKAR, 30 May 2013 (IRIN) – As violence rages in northern Nigeria, and international peacekeepers gear up to keep the peace in northern Mali, fears...
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Analysis: Slowing Nigerian grain trade threatens Sahel food security
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREDAKAR/KANO, 27 May 2013 (IRIN) – Northern Nigeria’s grain trade, which supplies almost half of the Sahel’s cereals, has slowed severely, while...
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Analysis: Nigerians on the run as military combat Boko Haram
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREKANO, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) – Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State have fled their homes – thousands of them into...
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Boko Haram attacks hit school attendance in Borno State
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREKANO, NIGERIA, 14 May 2013 (IRIN) – Around 15,000 children in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, have stopped attending classes since February 2013,...
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Understanding the causes of violent extremism in West Africa
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREDAKAR, 10 May 2013 (IRIN) – Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital...
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Displaced still homeless after clashes in Baga, Nigeria
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK EMAIL PRINT EASY READ SHAREBAGA,NIGERIA, 7 May 2013 (IRIN) – Thousands of residents of Baga in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, remain displaced for fear of further clashes...
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‘Go-Slow’: ‘Diaries of Personal and Collective Stagnation in Lagos’
529 West 20th Street, fifth floor, Chelsea Through July 31 No one views Africa more critically than Africans. And the young curator Amber Croyle acknowledges this fact in taking Fela Kuti’s satirical...
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Militants Kill Students and Teacher in Nigeria
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims. A farmer, Malam Abdullahi, found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently...
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Militants Attack School in Nigeria, Killing Students and a Teacher
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify victims, some of whom had been shot. A farmer, Malam Abdullahi, found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he...
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