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☆ Girls freed from Boko Haram in Nigeria can face further detention and abuse by military, Amnesty finds
  + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Survivors recounted giving birth to children fathered by Boko Haram fighters, often when they were still minors themselves. They described being humiliated by soldiers who called them “wives of Boko Haram” and accused them of being behind killings carried out by the terror group. One of them, named NV in the report, said she fled Boko Haram in 2021 when she was around 20. She had been forcibly married to a Boko Haram fighter while in captivity but remarried while living in the IDP for an extended period. Many survivors of Boko Haram told Amnesty that they witnessed Boko Haram killing their relatives.
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☆ More women describe having forced abortions in Nigerian Army programme
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +20 min
And both lost their pregnancies after they were taken into custody by Nigerian soldiers and given unidentified pills and injections. Nigerian military leaders previously have adamantly denied the existence of the abortion programme and the deliberate killing of unarmed children. We respect every living soul.”Asked about the military’s comments on the programme, Yau replied: “This happened to me, and they are denying it. After she was put into a room with three other pregnant women, Yau said, army personnel gave her pills and more injections. Reuters was unable to determine if this tally overlapped with others cited in its December story about the abortion programme.
☆ In Nigeria's long war, a young woman is brutalised by both sides
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +16 min
It was a pleasant evening in the summer of 2014, in her Nigerian village near the Cameroon border. Reuters could not reach representatives of Boko Haram or its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, for comment. But by October 2014, the militants were enforcing extreme sharia law in her village, Aisha said. Boko Haram men often came looking for them, knocking on their door and forcing them to hide. But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community.
☆ U.S. State Department 'deeply troubled' by report on Nigerian army killing children
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is "deeply troubled" by a Reuters report that the Nigerian army killed children in its fight against insurgents and had raised the allegations with the Nigerian government, a spokesperson said on Monday. Nigerian military leaders told Reuters the army has never targeted children for killing. "We are pursuing further information, including from the Government of Nigeria and stakeholders working in this space," a State Department spokesperson said by email. Our Embassy in Abuja is seeking additional information, including by speaking to Nigerian authorities." The Reuters report said intentional killings of children have occurred across northeast Nigeria, where the military have been battling Islamist extremists for 13 years.
☆ Nigeria military ran secret mass abortion program in war on Boko Haram
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Reuters Graphic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +10 min
The existence of the army-run abortion programme hasn’t been previously reported. The conflict zone The abortion programme has taken place in the northeastern states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa, where the Nigerian military has been fighting Islamist insurgents. A spokesperson for Jonathan told Reuters that the former president had “no knowledge of any allegation of such heinous acts” by the Nigerian Army. Some of the most powerful military leaders in Nigeria oversaw counterinsurgency operations in the northeast as the abortion programme grew. Waging war on Boko Haram The abortion programme began during the presidency of Jonathan.
☆ Boko Haram: How Ngarannam community attacked by terror group was rebuilt
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
It was the night in 2015 that Boko Haram militants attacked Ngarannam town in Borno State, northeast Nigeria. Ngarannam, a village of around 3,000 people, became desolate after the attack as displaced residents fled to Borno’s capital Maiduguri and surrounding areas. Her husband Bulama is the community leader for Ngarannam, which afforded them a certain privilege in the town. ‘Rebuilding Ngarannam ‘The project was conceived and led by Mohamed Yahaya, the UNDP’s Resident Representative for Nigeria. Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo meets some residents of Ngarannam community.
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