Nigeria: Muslims attack Christian community, murder seven Christians, set homes and churches on fire
Imagine the outcry if Christians had raided a Muslim village and burnt down homes and mosques. This would not happen and should not happen, but if it did, the media and international “human rights” organizations would never stop talking about it. The UN would pass resolutions condemning “Islamophobia” and calling upon member states to criminalize it. Many would do so. But this? Nothing.
Boko Haram Kills Seven Christians in Borno State, Nigeria
Morning Star News, April 29, 2025:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Boko Haram terrorists on Monday (April 28) attacked a predominantly Christian community in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, killing seven Christians and setting homes and church buildings ablaze, residents said.
The militants attacked Kwaple village in Chibok County, said area resident James Musa.
“Kwaple village in Chibok Local Government Area is under attack from Boko Haram terrorists. Please pray for God’s intervention,” Musa said, echoing text messages to Christian Daily International-Morning Star News from other residents.
Resident Ibrahim Adamu said seven Christian mourners at a wake were slain and several others severely injured by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. Modu Mustapha, chairman of the Chibok Local Government Council, confirmed the attack.
“On Monday at about 5 p.m., Boko Haram terrorists attacked Christians at a wake in Kwaple community,” Mustapha told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “The attack on the mourners resulted in stampede and pandemonium as these mourners were forced to flee as they were shot at randomly by the terrorists. Seven Christians who were mourning were killed during the attack carried out by Boko Haram, while many others were injured.”
The wounded were receiving hospital treatment. Mustapha said a number of church buildings were destroyed in the attack.
The assault was the latest in a wave of violence reflecting a resurgence of jihadist attacks in Nigeria’s northeast by Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Suspected militants reportedly ambushed and killed 10 civilians and two security officials in Borno state’s Gwoza area on Saturday (April 26) and injured two others. Also on Saturday in Adamawa state, suspected Boko Haram militants reportedly killed 10 people and wounded several others in an attack in Kopre village…
At least 26 killed in Indian airstrikes on Pakistan;
Pakistani shelling kills 10 in India
May 7 (UPI) -- Dozens of people were killed as India and Pakistan exchanged attacks in the ongoing aftermath of a mass killing of tourists in Pahalgam in April.
Pakistan said 26 people were killed and 46 were injured after New Delhi launched strikes against alleged terrorists within Pakistan's borders as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Wednesday that Pakistan has the right to retaliate against India's "act of war."
"The cunning enemy has carried out cowardly attacks on five locations in Pakistan," Sharif said in a statement on X. "Pakistan has every right to respond forcefully to this act of war imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given."
India's army later said that 10 civilians were killed in shelling by Pakistan on its side of the border between the neighboring nations.
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Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan's minister for information and broadcasting, had earlier said in a statement that "Pakistan has befittingly retaliated against Indian Aggression."
He said the Pakistani military had downed at least three Indian fighter jets and an Indian drone.
"The entire nation stands united in prayers and solidarity with our brave officers and soldiers," Tarar said.
India launched Operation Sindoor over Tuesday night, attacking what it called terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistan-controlled western region of Kashmir, whose sovereignty is disputed by both Pakistan and India.
The Indian Armed Forces said in a statement that it attacked nine alleged sites in retaliation for the deadly April 22 massacre of 26 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region of India-administered Kashmir. The Indian government has described the targets as "terrorist camps."
"Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature," the Indian Armed Forces said. "No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution."
India has blamed Pakistan for the Pahalgam attack, alleging it was conducted by Pakistan-based terrorists.
Late last month, Tarar said Pakistan had credible intelligence showing India intended to attack it over the Pahalgam massacre.
"Indian self-assumed hubristic role of judge, jury and executioner in the region is reckless and vehemently rejected," he said in a statement on X. "Pakistan has been the victim of terrorism itself and truly understands the pain of this scourge."
New Delhi has previously launched strikes into Pakistan after Pakistan-based terrorists attacked it on accusations that Islamabad was harboring the militants.
In 2019, India fighter jets conducted airstrikes against Jaish-e-Mohammed camps in Pakistan after the terrorist group killed more than 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force personnel in a suicide bombing in India's Jammu and Kashmir.
"The world must show zero tolerance for terrorism," Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's external affairs minister, said Wednesday on X.
At least 20 people killed in Sudan after a suspected drone strike hits a prison
A suspected drone strike launched by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit a prison in the southern region of Kordofan on Saturday and killed at least 20 inmates, authorities said.
Fifty other detainees were wounded in the attack on the main prison in Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan, Information Minister Khalid Aleiser said in a statement.
Aleiser, who is also the spokesman of the military-allied government, accused the Rapid Support Forces for the attack, which came as the militia escalates drone strikes on the military-held areas across the country.
Sudan plunged into civil war on April 15, 2023, when simmering tensions between the military and the RSF exploded into open warfare in the capital Khartoum and other parts of the country. Obeid is 363 kilometers (225 miles) south of Khartoum.
There was no immediate comment from the RSF, which earlier this month launched multi-day drone attack on Port Sudan, the Red Sea city serving as an interim seat for the Sudanese government. The strikes hit the city’s airports, maritime port and other facilities including fuel storages.
The military earlier struck Nyala airport in South Darfur, where the RSF receives foreign military assistance, including drones. Local media say dozens of RSF officers were killed in last week’s strike.
In the western region of Darfur, an artillery attack by the RSF on Friday on a camp for displaced people killed at least 14, according to the Emergency Room, an activist group tracking the war. The dead included two parents, their eight children and the children’s grandmother, the group said.
The RSF has launched nearly daily attacks on the camp and the nearby city of el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, which the paramilitaries have attempted to seize for more than a year.
Last month the RSF rampaged through Sudan’s largest camp for displaced, Zamzam, killing more than 400 people. The militia took control of the camp, pushing its population to flee.
The war has killed at least 24,000 people, though the number is likely far higher. It has driven about 13 million people from their homes, including 4 million who crossed into neighboring countries. Parts of the country have been pushed into famine.
The fighting has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in Darfur, according to the U.N. and international rights groups.
Gunmen killed 23 people in four separate attacks in central Nigeria's Benue state, a Red Cross official said Sunday, the latest flare-up of unrest in the region.
The attacks happened Saturday night in four villages. Clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers over land use are common in central Nigeria.
"Reports from the field have confirmed the killings of at least 23 people from different attacks," Red Cross secretary in Benue state Anthony Abah told AFP.
Eight people were killed in Ukum, nine in nearby Logo, three each in Guma and Kwande, he said, citing data from the organisation's field disaster officers. Several others were wounded, he added.
A police spokeswoman said she was unaware of the attacks.
Cephas Kangeh, a retired general manager with a state electricity company who recently relocated to his home village near one of the affected areas told AFP he had heard of three killings, including a couple ambushed while riding a motorcycle which "was taken away by the herdsmen".
Chinese operators are mining gold in the area, he said.
"The attacks did not take place near the mining sites," said Kangeh.
"However, one is puzzled as to why indigenous people are always attacked, maimed... yet there has never been a single case of attack on the Chinese miners who are operating in these areas."
Are the indigenous people Christians? Or is it all about the farmland?
With many herders belonging to the Muslim Fulani ethnic group, and many farmers Christian, the attacks in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt often take on a religious or ethnic dimension.
Two attacks by unidentified gunmen earlier in April in neighbouring Plateau state left more than 100 people dead.
Across the wider Middle Belt, including in Benue, land used by farmers and herders is coming under stress from climate change and human expansion, sparking deadly competition for increasingly limited space.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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