"One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children."
In the last weeks a series of incidents have raised concerns in a country beset by violence for the last decade.
More than 40% of Niger's population lives in extreme poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed growth to a crawl.
The US decisions in Africa could send a message to groups destroying northern Nigeria, like Boko Haram, that the US is not committed in the long term.
Excerpted and adapted from The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa.
The militants entered Monguno in Borno state posing as a convoy of soldiers on Tuesday evening, the sources said. They then attacked troops inside the town, destroying at least 750 homes.
A decade-long insurgency in the northeast, started by Islamist group Boko Haram in 2009, has claimed more than 30,000 lives.
Leah’s mother recently visited Washington, DC, where I had an opportunity to speak to her about her daughter, and about her own tireless efforts to see Leah released.
The attack on Rann, home to a camp housing tens of thousands of people displaced by the Islamist insurgency, was one of the group's bloodiest.
“In our recent history, eleven Jews have been assassinated, and some of them tortured, by radical Islamists"
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