Local News
Widowed by Insecurity, Women Struggle to Remarry in Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
Barriers hinder women from remarrying. Data on Nigeria report more than 10,000 women widowed since Boko Haram conflict in 2009. During the insurgency, hundreds of young men from Borno state were arrested, abducted, or forced to join the insurgents.
Five farmers wounded in clash with Fulani herders
Tension is high in the Monguno district of Borno State as anxious farmers prepare for harvest – all the while on the lookout for nomadic herders and their voracious livestock. […]
Looking death in the face – every day
Insurgents confront Borno State farmers daily, allowing them on their lands only if they pay a ‘tax’ – if they refuse, they are attacked, killed, wounded or kidnapped. Farmers in […]
Insurgents behead nine fishermen in gruesome attack
Residents of Konduga town in Borno State say they are alarmed and shocked by the ‘horrific and grisly slaughter’ of nine fishermen who were found beheaded Nine fishermen have been […]
Borno State government confirms escape of ‘repentant’ insurgents
Thirteen ‘low-risk’ surrendered insurgents – members of the ‘hybrid forces’ working side by side with Nigerian Armed Forces – have fled with rifles and motorbikes. Thirteen “low-risk” repentant insurgents, who […]
Insurgents kill traditional ruler and security commander in ambush
Gunmen ambush military convoy on New Marte-Dikwa road, killing seven and wounding many in ‘well-planned, well-coordinated and well-executed’ attack. The traditional ruler of Musine town in the Marte district of […]
‘Your husband is dead – we killed him’
Distraught widow tells how insurgents kidnapped her husband, held him captive for six days and then phoned her to inform her about his death – ‘my life changed in less […]
Three students and undisclosed number die in separate attacks in Yobe State
Insurgents – believed to be members of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād – kill three students and an undisclosed number in attacks in Yobe’s Tarmuwa and Geidam districts. An […]
Begging ban: Disabled and elderly face starving to death
Beggars say the Borno State government should provide some other means for the disabled and elderly to make money otherwise they will die of hunger. Disabled and elderly people are […]
Ban on street begging in Maiduguri means ‘hunger will kill many of us’
Borno State government announces there will be no more begging, loitering or gallivanting on Maiduguri streets from now on. If the new law forbidding all people – but particularly those […]
Wives and children call for justice for the murder of their husband and father
Husband of four and father of 12 – with three more kids on the way – beaten to death with iron rod by perpetrators who killed him because they were […]
