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South Sudan: “Piles And Piles” Of Bodies Amid Ethnic Violence
Source: CBS News NAIROBI, Kenya – The U.N.’s top humanitarian official in South Sudan says he saw “piles and piles” of bodies after rebels belonging to one ethnic group slaughtered members of other...
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Hundreds Of Kidnapped Nigerian School Girls Reportedly Sold As Brides To...
Source: Terrence McCoy / The Washington Post Samson Dawah was nervous. For two weeks, he had waited for any bit of information regarding his niece, who was among the 234 Nigerian school girls likely...
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Nigeria’s Islamic Extremist Leader Threatens To Sell Kidnapped Girls
Source: Michelle Faul / ABC News Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the more than 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new...
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Reports: Nigeria Extremists Kidnap 8 More Girls
Source: John Bacon / USA Today Suspected members of Nigeria’s notorious Islamic extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped eight more girls from a village in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, Sky News...
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A Survivor’s Story: What It’s Like To Be Attacked By Boko Haram
Source: Collen Curry / ABC News The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram gained worldwide notoriety this week after they admitted to kidnapping 300 high school girls last month and threatening to sell...
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Nigerian Schoolgirl Describes Kidnapping By Terrorists
Source: AP / NBC News The girls in the school dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms burst in and promised to rescue them, at first they were relieved....
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Nigerians Blame Government For Kidnapped Girls
Source: Ameen Auwalii and Jad Salfiti / USA Today ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian officials are stepping up action on hundreds of missing school girls kidnapped by terrorists in mid-April following the offer...
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Pres. Obama: US Will Do Everything It Can To Help Nigeria Find Kidnapped Girls
Source: theGrio WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls who have been missing since they were abducted...
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Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Killed “Hundreds” In 12-Hour Raid On Remote...
Source: AP / CBS News LAGOS, Nigeria — Islamic militants killed hundreds of people in an attack on a border town in Nigeria’s remote northeast, a state government official said Thursday. Shops and...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Warns Nigerian Kidnappings Are Just A Beginning
Source: theGrio The Reverend Jesse Jackson, head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, held a news conference to demand international mobilization to find hundreds of Nigerian girls kidnapped by extremists...
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Nigeria Had 4-Hour Warning On School Raid, Amnesty International Says
Source: Hamish MacDonald / ABC News Nigerian authorities failed to act on warnings about Boko Haram’s imminent raid on a boarding school where it abducted more than 240 girls last month, according to...
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U.S. Experts Arrive In Nigeria To Hunt Girls Taken By Boko Haram
Source: Jim Miklanszewski and Henry Austin / NBC News A senior defense official told NBC News that Nigeria’s military needs to “step up” in order to locate and rescue the 276 schoolgirls abducted by...
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Boko Haram: “We Will Never Release Them Until Our Brethren Are Released”
Source: Tucker Reals / CBS News A video distributed Monday shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram saying he is willing to trade more than 200 kidnapped teenage girls for...
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Villagers Strike Back Against Extremist Islamic Militants
Source: AP / CBS News BAUCHI, Nigeria – Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates killed and arrested scores of the extremist Islamic militants that were suspected of planning to launch...
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Nigerian Defense Chief Says Abducted Girls Located, Fears Using Military Force
Source: AP / theGrio ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the...
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48 Killed In Terror Attack On Kenya Town, Police Say
Source: ABC News Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who couldn’t answer questions about Islam and those who didn’t know the Somali language, officials and...
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Black Flag Of ISIS Militants Hangs Over Iraq Refinery
Source: Colleen Curry / ABC News The flag of ISIS was pictured flying above Iraq’s biggest oil refinery today, an image that suggested the Sunni militant group had taken control of the refinery in...
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Pres. Obama Plans To Send Up To 300 Military Advisers To Iraq
Source: David Jackson / USA Today WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he is planning to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help retrain Iraqi security forces as they battle an insurgent...
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63 Abducted Females Escape Extremists In Nigeria
Source: AP / USA Today MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Officials say 63 girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have escaped. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had...
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Pres. Obama Seeks $3.7B To Stem Tide Of Kids Crossing Border
Source: Alan Gomez / USA Today As thousands of children continue streaming across the nation’s southwest border, the White House asked Congress on Tuesday for $3.7 billion to improve security along the...
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