Babagana Umara Zulum Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/babagana-umara-zulum/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Babagana Umara Zulum Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/babagana-umara-zulum/ 32 32 Deadly stampede of refugees in Niger https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/deadly-stampede-of-refugees-in-niger/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/deadly-stampede-of-refugees-in-niger/ At least 23 people have died in a stampede of refugees in southeast Niger. The dead include women and children. Most of the fatalities are refugees from Nigeria. According to the United Nations, the camp at Diffa houses more than 250 000 people displaced by Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria. For more than a […]

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]]> At least 23 people have died in a stampede of refugees in southeast Niger.

The dead include women and children.

Most of the fatalities are refugees from Nigeria.

According to the United Nations, the camp at Diffa houses more than 250 000 people displaced by Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria.

For more than a decade, Boko Haram has been battling to form an Islamist caliphate in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Thousands of military personnel and civilians have died in the attacks.

The Nigerian Government has been unable to bring the organisation to heel.

The stampede occurred when the refugees were queueing for food, clothing  and money being handed out by the visiting Governor of Nigeria’s Borno state Babagana Oumara Zulum. 

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]]> Boko Haram burns sleeping travelers in their cars https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/boko-haram-burns-sleeping-travelers-in-their-cars/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/boko-haram-burns-sleeping-travelers-in-their-cars/ Islamist militants have burned to death at least 30 people sleeping in their cars in troubled north-east Nigeria. The dead include a pregnant woman and a baby. The militants, believed to be from Boko Haram, arrived in trucks and  set fire to the cars filled with travelers. Borno state governor Babagana Umara Zulum  was shocked […]

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]]> Islamist militants have burned to death at least 30 people sleeping in their cars in troubled north-east Nigeria.

The dead include a pregnant woman and a baby.

The militants, believed to be from Boko Haram, arrived in trucks and  set fire to the cars filled with travelers.

Borno state governor Babagana Umara Zulum  was shocked at the sight of the charred corpses in the 18 burned-out vehicles that included a truck full of food.

An undisclosed  number of women and children were abducted.

The incident gives the lie to President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim to have defeated Boko Haram whose 11 year insurgency in northeast Nigeria has left more than 35 000 people dead and two million homeless. 

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