Links to useful sources of information about the conflict can be found in the sections below. These include reports and statements from governmental and non-governmental organisations and religious entities. For academic papers, see the Academic Articles sub-page.
The following websites provide useful information on Nigeria and the conflict:
The following is a list of authoritative reports from governmental and non-governmental organisations:
18 July 2021 – 3,462 Christians hacked to death by Nigerian jihadists in 200 days, 3000 abducted, 300 churches and ten priests attacked
Report by Intersociety
11 May 2021 - Nigerian Islamic jihadists massacred 1,470 Christians in first four months of 2021 and abducted over 2,200
Report by Intersociety
10 April 2021 - Religious profiling: Nigerian army killed 350 Christian civilians in 10 months and in peacetime
Report by Intersociety
21 March 2021 - Nigeria is under jihad and we saw it coming over five years ago...
Report by Intersociety
3 January 2021 - Year 2020 ended with 2,400 Christians hacked to death by jihadists
Report by Intersociety
11 December 2020 - Public statement by chair of working group on children and armed conflict
Calling for the release of children from military detention for alleged Boko Haram involvement
29 November 2020 - Killing of 110 Borno farmers and IDPs is a war crime
Statement by Intersociety
9 October 2020 - Huriwa to Governor El'Rufai-: End discrimination against Christians now
Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria on the discriminatory practices of the Kaduna State Government
16 September 2020 - Nigeria is divided as never before under Buhari
Statement by Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka
20 August 2020 - Dark clouds of violence over our land
Statement from the Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province
05 August 2020 - 1,421 Christians hacked to death by Nigeria's jihadists in seven months of 2020 (1 Jan-31 July)
Report by Intersociety
03 August 2020 – Genocide in Nigeria and the Implications for the International Community
Report by International Committee on Nigeria (ICON)
12 July 2020 - Nigeria: 1,202 defenceless Christians hacked to death by jihadists in six months (Jan-June 2020)
Report by Intersociety
23 May 2020 – State-aided jihadist genocide is going on in southern Kaduna
Public statement by Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Democracy Organizations (SBCHROs)
14 May 2020 – 620 Christians hacked to death by Nigerian jihadists in 4 months and 15 days of 2020
Special report by Intersociety
12 May 2020 – HURIWA condemns the Kajuru massacres
Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA)
8 March 2020 – Nigeria: A killing field of defenceless Christians
Special report by Intersociety
26 February 2020 – Lenten Statement of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria on Insecurity in the Country
23 February 2020 – World leaders need to intervene in the genocide of Christians
Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA)
11 February 2020 – Homily of His Lordship Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah at the Funeral Mass of Seminarian Michael Nnadi at Good Shepherd Seminary Kaduna
30 January 2020 – CSI Issues Genocide Warning for Christians in Nigeria, Calls on Permanent Members of the UN Security Council to Act
Press release by Christian Solidarity International (CSI)
27 January 2020 - Letter to H.E. Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
From the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
16 January 2020 - Nigeria, notably the recent terrorist attacks
EU Parliament Resolution
27 December 2019 – Statement by President Muhammadu Buhari on killing by ISWAP of 11 Christian hostages at Christmas, published on Twitter
24 December 2019 – CAN, US ganging up in iniquity
Press release by Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
14 December 2019 - Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA) reacts to CJN's call for constitution amendment to accommodate sharia law in Nigeria
Statement by Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA)
18 October 2019 - Delayed justice for victims of herdsmen's killings
Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on failure of President Buhari to bring farmers' killers to justice
12 September 2019 - Nigeria: 22,000 people registered as missing after a decade of war, ICRC's highest caseload in the world
ICRC News release
2 September 2019 - End of visit statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her visit to Nigeria
by Agnes Callamard
26 August 2019 - HURIWA demands whereabouts of over 300 suspected kidnappers
Statement by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria regarding failure of police to bring prosecutions
22 July 2019 - Yoruba Question in Nigeria's Conundrum
Open letter by Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III to President Buhari on the state of the nation
6 July 2019 - A rejoinder, re: Nigerian Government letter to UK APGG IFoRB denies persecution of Christians
Statement by National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, to the UK Parliament
2 June 2019 - Nigeria is under attack
Statement by Anthony Cardinal Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos
6 November 2018 – Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) report to President Buhari
Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria statements: