Publications
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.
Information and analysis
The following websites provide useful information on Nigeria and the conflict:
- Nigeria Watch violent deaths database
- Council on Foreign Relations, Nigeria Security Tracker
- Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), Nigeria country information
- Nigeria data portal
The following is a list of authoritative reports from governmental and non-governmental organisations:
- Amnesty International report: We dried our tears - Addressing the toll on children of northeast Nigeria's conflict
- International Crisis Group report, 18 May 2020: Violence in Nigeria's North West: Rolling back the mayhem
- SB Morgen report, October 2019: Stalemate: Boko Haram's new strategy requires it to commit fewer attacks
- Human Rights Watch report, September 2019: Military Detention of Children for Suspected Boko Haram Involvement in Northeast Nigeria
- Human Rights Watch World Report 2020, Nigeria Chapter
- Bishop of Truro's Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians, Nigeria chapter
- Global Terrorism Index 2019
- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Annual Report 2020 Nigeria Chapter
- USCIRF report, February 2019: Central Nigeria, overcoming dangerous speech and endemic religious divides
- US Department of State Nigeria 2019 International Religious Freedom Report
- Institute for Security Studies (ISS): Factional Dynamics within Boko Haram
- International Crisis Group report, 16 May 2019: Facing the Challenge of the Islamic State in West Africa Province
- International Crisis Group report, 26 July 2018: Stopping Nigeria’s Spiralling Farmer-Herder Violence
- Council on Foreign Relations, The Numbers Behind Sectarian Violence in Nigeria
- ACLED: 10 Hidden Conflicts in Africa: #6 The Fulani Ethnic Militia in Nigeria
- Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor Volume 17, Issue 6: The Return of al-Qaeda's Faction in Nigeria: What's Going on in Zamfara?
- Nigerian Government, The National Livestock Transformation Plan, June 2018
- Amnesty International report: Nigeria: The Harvest of Death - Three Years of Bloody Clashes Between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria
- Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Spotlight, 11 January 2017: Africa’s Pastoralists: A New Battleground for Terrorism
Statements
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)
24 January 2020 - 'Nigeria Is Under A Siege Orchestrated By The Murderous Blood-Thirsty And Criminally-Minded Boko Haram Terrorists'
Text of a speech by the president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), His Eminence, Dr Samson Ayokunle at the World Press Conference, 23 January 2020
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
24 July 2019 - Killing of Mrs Olufunke Olakunrin (née Fasoranti): Our Stand
Statement by Chief Ayo Adebanjo on behalf of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere
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
Submission to UK parliament by Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCEF)
7 May 2019 – The Challenges of Mitigating Herdsmen Attacks on People of Nigeria: Lessons from Benue State
Keynote address given by Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
6 November 2018 – Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) report to President Buhari
Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria statements:
- 29 June 2018 – Shameful Inversion of values, Statement on the Plateau State Massacre
- 26 April 2018 – When will this barbarism end?, Statement on the murder of two priests and 15 parishioners in Mbalom, Benue State
- 16 January 2018 – On the recurrent wave of violence…, Statement on the attacks across Nigeria