Showing posts with label BokoHaram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BokoHaram. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2015

World Must Condemn Use of Girls as Suicide Bombers by BokoHaram - Gordon Brown, UN

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The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, on Thursday, said the world must unite to condemn Boko Haram’s new barbaric and evil use of young girls as suicide bombers to carry out their murderous attacks.

This is contained in a statement from the Office of the Envoy in New York.

Brown recalled that there were three attacks over the past week where girls were used as suicide bombers.

He said that, in contravention of international law, children were now being used as easy targets by Boko Haram.

Brown said they were also exploited as slaves and sex objects and deployed as suicide bombers.

He stressed that “as we approach the first anniversary of the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their Chibok school, we must resolve to do more against Boko Haram.

“We must ensure that children are better protected by supporting President Goodluck Jonathan‘s Safe School Initiative.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Khloe Kardashian Lends Support For Nigeria on Instagram

This must stop! BokoHaram Kills Woman In Labour


PMNews
Boko Haram fighters have killed a woman as she was in labour during what is feared could be the deadliest attack in the militants’ six-year insurgency, Amnesty International claimed on Thursday.

The human rights group said one witness to the assault on Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria, told them the woman was shot by indiscriminate fire that also cut down small children.

“Half of the baby boy (was) out and she died like this,” the unnamed witness was quoted as saying.
Amnesty said this week that hundreds of people, if not more, may have been killed in the attack, which began on January 3 and is thought to have targeted civilian vigilantes helping the military.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

More than 3,700 homes destroyed in Nigeria by BokoHaram attack

Amnesty International has released satellite images from the January 2nd and 7th Boko Haram attack in Baga Borno state. Early reports put the death toll from the attack at 2000 but that has been disputed by the Nigerian military who put the death toll at 150.

According to a report carried out by AI's Nigeria researcher, Daniel Eyre, about 3,700 homes in two villages, Baga and Doron Baga were destroyed by the militants. The report claims that of all the Boko Haram attacks, the one carried out in Baga last week is so far the deadliest.

Rapper Meek Mill tweets on the BokoHaram crisis in Nigeria

Nicki Minaj's new boyfriend took to twitter this to slam the way foreign media outlets are covering the issue in France when the issue in Nigeria is more serious.

World silence on BokoHaram attack: Madonna speaks out for Nigeria

Music icon Madonna has joined the many US celebs speaking out for Nigeria. She shared this on instagram

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Hollywood actress and UN ambassador Angelina Jolie condemns BokoHaram attacks

Actress and UN ambassador, Angelina Jolie has condemned the various attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria. She condemned the activities of the terror group in a statement released yesterday Jan. 13th,
"Each new crime committed by Boko Haram exceeds the last in brutality. This is a direct consequence of the environment of total impunity in which Boko Haram operates. Every time they get away with mass murder, rape and the enslavement of women and children, they are emboldened." her statement read in part
She called on the United States government and the rest of the international community to work together so as to "bring the perpetrators of these attacks to justice".