More than a Million flee from Boko Haram Attacks in Nigeria
ncessant attacks from Boko Haram militants in north-eastern Nigeria have caused over a million people to flee their homes in terror, reports Barnabas Aid.
Often targeting predominantly Christian villages, residents are killed and houses are razed. Christians in northern Nigeria are also victims of repeated violence from ethnic Fulani Muslims who are responsible for killings, burning houses, and forcing Christians to flee.
Barnabas Aid says that on Sunday, January 25, the strategic Nigerian town of Maiduguri in Borno state was attacked. Earlier the same day, militants rampaged through Monguno town in the same state, burning houses to the ground. Earlier, on January 10, at least 19 people were killed in Nigeria when a 10-year-old girl was reported to have blown herself up in Maiduguri, also in Borno state. And the next day, four people were killed and over 40 injured, in attacks from two...