West & Central Africa
The Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, Bishop of Jos, central Nigeria, where the Islamic Boko Haram Jihadi group first launched its bombing campaign against Christians in 2010 and where Islamic Fulani cattle herdsmen have killed thousands of ...
UN peacekeepers were this week accused of standing by while “Muslim Union of Peace” militants opened fire on a group of Christians taking shelter near a church in the south-east Central African Republic. Three people, including ...
Amnesty International has reported the killing of about 4000 people in the predominantly Christian central region of Nigeria by Islamic Fulani cattle herdsmen between 2016 and 2018. The report, “Harvest of Death: Three Years of ...
Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian government of refusing to bring those involved in the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist insurgency to justice. The Human rights organisation, speaking on Monday 10 December, in Abuja requested the ...
Soldiers who survived the Metele massacre of Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram Islamic terrorist Jihadi groups on 19 November, have denied the claim by the Nigerian Army that “only 23 soldiers were killed by the ...
The European Center for Law and Justice has called on the the United Nations Special Adviser Adama Dieng, Special adviser to the Secretary General on Prevention of Genocide take “appropriate action” against the targeting and ...
Father Cosmas Omboto, 33, Kenyan priest who was shot and killed on November 21 at a church in Kembong, Southwest region of Cameroon by Cameroonian soldiers, has been described as a martyr by Bishop John ...
The Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai Elkanemi, the paramount traditional ruler in Borno, northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram is most active, has told President Muhammadu Buhari the northeast, particularly Borno State, is still ...
The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Fridolin Ambongo, has appealed “to the patriotic conscience of our people” to be peaceful during the presidential campaigns and upcoming elections and “not to succumb to provocation.” The Congolese Catholic Church, ...
Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga, President of the Episcopal, and Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic, on Monday 26 November, called for a “Day of Lamentation and Prayer” for the over 60 people killed on November 15, ...
