Jan 14, 2020
Uchenna Chikwendu rarely speaks about the Biafra War. The 67-year-old lives in Enugu, the provincial capital of the state of the same name in eastern Nigeria. She was a teenager during the civil war, which began in July 1967 and ended on January 15, 1970. But...
Sep 16, 2019
Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki Leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, petitioned the United Nations and its relevant agencies over alleged human rights abuses suffered by its people at the hands of the Nigerian government. A statement...
Sep 2, 2019
End of visit statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her visit to Nigeria Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions2 September 2019 Introduction I conducted an...
Sep 2, 2019
Abuja, Nigeria – The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings condemned rising violence across Nigeria and a “lack of accountability” for perpetrators. Agnes Callamard, speaking at a news conference on Monday in...
Jun 28, 2019
NGA106308.ENigeria: The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), including objectives, structure, activities, relations with other Biafran independence groups and treatment by authorities (2017-May 2019) Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 1....
Jan 17, 2019
(Abuja) – Persistent attacks by Boko Haram, intensified conflict between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities, and violent banditry in many northern states dominated Nigeria’s human rights landscape during 2018, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing...
Jul 26, 2018
Biafra has, say its supporters, an incontrovertible claim to self-determination. Today it sits within the south-east of modern Nigeria. Previously, it was an independent nation but was subsumed into the Nigerian state when the British amalgamated a number of their...
Apr 16, 2018
It happened on the afternoon of 14 September last year, 2017. I had come back to visit my family home in Biafra a few weeks earlier from Germany, where I now live. I call it Biafra because Biafra is my country, not Nigeria. My mother and father, my older brother...
May 30, 2017
The Nigerian security forces must exercise restraint when policing demonstrations marking the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Biafra War on 30 May, and avoid a repetition of the bloodbath caused by their heavy-handed response last year when more than 60 people...
May 5, 2017
After spending more than a year-and-a-half in a Nigerian jail without trial on treason charges, Nnamdi Kanu is now free on bail. The BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty explains who Nwannekaenyi “Nnamdi” Kanu is and why he attracts so much controversy Nnamdi...