After violent clashes in central Nigeria between Muslim herders and Christian farmers, occuring during weekend media is citing police informing that 86 people were killed. The growing conflict between two groups has become deadlier than Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist insurgency. Following the massacre Nigeria’s president in a statement accused unnamed politicians of taking advantage of…
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Buhari vows to unite Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in 2015 is vowing to end Boko Haram’s offensive to create an Islamic caliphate in the northeast, he also declared his priority to improve security in Africa’s most populous country of 150.53 million. The issue has become politically charged in the run-up to an election next year which Buhari…
Violence in Nigeria causes MEPs ‘deep concern’
The European Parliament expresses deep concern about the security situation in Nigeria. MEPs call on President Muhammadu Buhari and his government to: address the increasing inter-ethnic violence between pastoral communities and farmers by negotiating a national policy framework protecting the interests of both groups, step up the efforts to stop the attacks against Christian and…
Schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram
Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in north-eastern Nigeria three years ago, the president’s office says. They were handed over in exchange for Boko Haram suspects after negotiations. #BokoHaram have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 abducted in north-eastern #Nigeria 3…
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