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In mid-December 2021, the newly founded Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) sent a joint letter with 17 signatories to the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken inquiring about the reasons for Nigeria’s removal from the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) designation list of countries the governments of which have “engaged in or […]

This Wednesday, April 14, 2021, is the seventh anniversary of the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping, during which Boko Haram Islamist militants abducted a total of 276 Christian schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. The kidnapping garnered responses and condemnations from numerous countries – including Canada, the United States, the European Union, Israel,

The group of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted from their boarding school on Friday, February 26th, have officially been released from captivity as of March 2nd, 2021. No further details were provided regarding why the girls were eventually released, and the Nigerian government has denied claims that they had paid ransom for the girls’ release.

On Saturday, February 27, 2021, a group of gunmen in Nigerian released 27 teenage schoolboys that they had abducted the week prior from Government Science secondary school in Kagara District, Niger State, Nigeria. During the initial incident on February 17th, a group of armed individuals ambushed the school and kidnapped 27 students, as well as

On 26 February 2021, news broke in the early morning that an unidentified group of gun-wielding assailants abducted some 317 Nigerian schoolgirls in a midnight ambush on Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School. Zamfara State’s Commissioner of Information, Hon. Saluiman Tunau Anka, confirmed that the kidnapping occurred sometime around midnight, and that some of the students

In February 2021, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its updated factsheet on the pervasive violence in northern Nigeria at the hands of radical Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), who, together, have caused no less than 37,500 civilian deaths within the past decade. Boko Haram’s