Extensive report "West Africa: The Islamic State Franchises in Africa - Lessons From Lake Chad -... What seems undeniable, though, is that the fortunes of ISIS-linked militants in sub-Saharan Africa are rising. The ISIS franchise in the Sahel has expanded significantly, confounding the efforts of regional armies and a French-led military mission. "
Extensive report "West Africa: The Islamic State Franchises in Africa - Lessons From Lake Chad - ..
#StopTheTerror " Boko Haram is Recruiting Young Children in New Drive | Boko Haram continues to ...
#StopTheTerror " Boko Haram is Recruiting Young Children in New Drive | Boko Haram continues to plague Northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region with attacks, extremism and devastating violence"
https://www.persecution.org/2020/09/15/boko-haram-recruiting-young-children-new-drive/
❤ 🙏 ✝ "Nigeria-based extremist group known for terrorizing the Lake Chad region released a video last week showing the Rev. Lawan Andimi pleading for his release. Andimi is the head of the Christian Association in Nigeria’s chapter in the Adamawa state and was declared missing on Jan. 3 following a raid in the town of Michika"
"Nigeria-based extremist group known for terrorizing the Lake Chad region released a video last week showing the Rev. Lawan Andimi pleading for his release.
Andimi is the head of the Christian Association in Nigeria's chapter in the Adamawa state and was declared missing on Jan. 3 following a raid in the town of Michika"
ATTN: TRUMP "Nigeria needs a US special envoy"
"Terrorists associated with Boko Haram and Fulani militants are slaughtering, enslaving, expelling and otherwise persecuting a growing number of Nigerian Christians. Some Muslims have also been killed. Nigeria's government has not been successful in preventing such horrors, and these traumatic effects are rippling throughout that nation and neighboring states in the Lake Chad region."
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"Lake Chad Basin: World's most neglected crisis rages on"
"Lake Chad Basin: World's most neglected crisis rages on"
"Out of the 17 million people directly suffering from the consequences of this crisis, more than seven million of them are going hungry - a population more than the size of Berlin and Madrid combined.
Millions live in lawless, conflict-affected areas where it is hardest for people to get the aid they need. The information available suggests that many are on the brink of starvation...."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/02/lake-chad-basin-world-neglected-crisis-rages-170222104058402.html"QUICK FACTS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HUNGER CRISIS IN THE LAKE CHAD REGION
The Lake Chad Basin has been grappling with the effects of poverty, climate change and weak governance for years. In both Nigeria and Niger, Mercy Corps has been working with the local communities to improve access to food, safety and security, while fueling economic development and other interventions that make communities stronger.
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an annual per person income of less than $200. Unpredictable rain patterns due to climate change severely affect farmers’ ability to grow enough food. A failed harvest at the end of 2011 left Niger and the entire Sahel region of West Africa in a water and food crisis....
...Crisis made worse by Boko Haram
Boko Haram emerged in the region in the early 2000s as an anti-government Islamic sect, but began to gain notoriety in 2009 when its actions became more radical and deadly. The group made international headlines after the 2014 abduction of 276 girls from their school in Chibok, Nigeria.
Since then, millions have fled their villages to escape Boko Haram recruitment and violence...."
MORE INFORMATION LINKS:
"The latest International Organization for Migration (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) recorded more than 1.76 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) across northeastern Nigeria’s Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states, an increase of approximately 8 percent since the December 2016 DTM. Borno accounted for the largest change, with IOM recording 135,290 additional IDPs. IOM notes that improved access to displaced populations rather than new displacement likely accounted for much of the increase..."
"...
- On 17 January, a Nigerian military jet accidentally bombs an IDP site in Rann locality, Borno state, killing at least 112 civilians, including six Nigerian Red Cross workers, and wounding 100.
- The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cameroon reaches 191,908 in the country’s Far North, more than doubling since 2015.
- Humanitarian organizations provide food assistance to more than 1 million people in January. In 2017, some 5.1 people are projected to face emergency and crisis levels of food insecurity.
- In 2016, almost 215,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) were admitted for treatment across the region. Malnutrition rates remain high, with 515,000 children expected to suffer from SAM in 2017...."
"THE UNTOLD CRISIS OF THE LAKE CHAD BASIN...The Lake Chad Basin is suffering from one of the world’s largest overlooked humanitarian crises today. Almost half the population living in areas affected by Boko Haram violence – 9.2 million people - are in need of humanitarian assistance. According to multiple international charities, 2.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes, at least 65,000 people in the region are experiencing famine-like conditions and 6.4 million people are facing crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity...."
I have lived in and worked in, loved, written and cared about Sub-Saharan Africa virtually my entire adult life.
So, it is with great sadness that I say there are few phrases that today bring me closer to tears—or nearly have me choking, just trying to say them—than the three words: Lake Chad Basin.
To have worked so long and so hard to address the needs of the millions of men, women and children who live there—first as a diplomat and now with the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations migration agency—and help them forge a better future, yet witness the tragedy unfolding there is simply heart-breaking...."
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