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Two students identified from the video were arrested in connection with the lynching. [16] [17] However, none have been prosecuted. One Muslim perpetrator has filmed himself proclaiming that he did it in graphical terms. A Nigerian police officer filmed himself endorsing the Islamist lynching and called any one who questioned the act a "Kafir ...
The events of Abuja in 2000 and Jos in 2001 were riots between Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria about the appointment of a Muslim politician, Alhaji Muktar Mohammed, as local coordinator of the federal programme to fight poverty. [70] Another such riot killed over 100 people in October 2001 in Kano State. [71] [72]
Five people were killed in fighting, including three policemen. The governor was not hurt. [213] On 2 August, Boko Haram killed at least 18 people in a grenade attack on an IDP camp in Far North, Cameroon. [214] [215] [216] On 9 August, ISWAP killed six French aid workers and two Nigerien civilians in Kouré, Tillabéri Region, Niger. [217]
12 people killed during the wedding with five people captured including the bride and groom. [114] December 20, 2021: Nasarawa State: 50 Fulani herdsmen 2021 Nasarawa massacre: At least 50 Tiv civilians were killed in Nasarawa state, [115] due to Fulani herdersmen blaming Tiv farmers for the killings of a kinsman. [116] May 5, 2022 Ondo State: 50
Four people were killed and two others kidnapped in separate overnight attacks in the far north of Cameroon. Another one was wounded. [308] 15 January. Four people were killed in Mayo-Tsanaga, a region of the Far North of Cameroon, during an attack by Boko Haram. The assailants left after burning down dozens of huts and a church. [309]
MAIDUGURI/ABUJA (Reuters) -An airstrike on a village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state killed at least 33 people last week, four residents and a traditional leader said, after a military ...
These incidents killed over 700 people. [1] The first occurred on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa, killing more than 78 Christians, including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. [1] According to some sources, the signal for the attack was a call for Jihad from the local mosque. [2]
In April 2022, he joined about 60 other people, including Jewish and Christian faith leaders, at a climate change protest in Newark. "He was a community advocate who protested against gun violence ...