Jan 15, 2020
My earliest memories of Biafra are the same as my earliest memories of my father. I can remember sitting next to him on a bed and I touched his arm. He turned to me and he said: “Can’t you see your father is crying.” It was many years later that I realised he was...
Jan 14, 2020
Aphotograph taken in April 1968 by the British photojournalist Don McCullin shows a young Biafran soldier carrying a wounded comrade from an encounter with the federal Nigeran army during the Biafran war. He looks at the camera. Hardly acknowledging McCullin’s...
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...