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The available materials show competing claims about whether , with some actors asserting large Christian death tolls in 2025 while analysts and datasets indicate many victims are Muslim in Nigeria’s p...
Executive Summary The available analyses show that . At the same time, independent reporting and research emphasize that the violence arises from a mix of drivers—land and resource competition, crimin...
Both Christians and Muslims in Nigeria were repeatedly targeted by extremist violence between 2020 and 2024, and available reporting and datasets do not support a simple claim that one faith was consi...
The claim that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria is supported by multiple reports documenting targeted attacks, killings, kidnappings and legal discrimination against Christians, but the situ...
Available reporting shows wide disagreement about counts of Christians killed or displaced in Nigeria 2015–2024: NGO and media tallies range from tens of thousands over multi‑year periods to single‑ye...
No single figure can be produced from the materials supplied: none of the reviewed documents claim a comprehensive, verified count of . The sources instead document episodic killings, regional pattern...
The available materials do not provide a reliable, single figure for how many Christians Boko Haram has killed in Nigeria since 2015; the reports offer rather than a clear, Boko Haram–specific total ....
Nigeria is experiencing significant lethal violence that includes attacks on Christian communities, but the situation is complex: credible watchdogs and reports document numerous killings and displace...
Mass kidnappings in Nigeria have surged in recent years and spiked again in November 2025 with attacks that took roughly 303 students and 12 teachers (CAN’s figure) from St Mary’s School and at least ...
Reporting and advocacy groups offer several overlapping explanations for why some Fulani militants attack Christian communities in Nigeria: competition over land and pastoral routes, political impunit...
The preponderance of available reports indicates , with some analysts saying Fulani-associated attackers killed more civilians than Boko Haram/ISWAP combined between 2019–2023 . In 2025 multiple organ...
Most reporting and advocacy groups say attacks on Christian communities are concentrated in northern Nigeria and the central “Middle Belt,” with repeated attacks in states such as Borno, Benue, Platea...
Since 2015, recurring clashes between mostly Muslim Fulani herders and largely Christian farmers in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been linked to numerous killings, displacements and attacks on churches; ...
UN and Amnesty International reporting on violence in Nigeria describes large-scale, lethal insecurity affecting communities across the country, but both agencies and other human-rights monitors empha...
The available analyses present three key findings: , and government responses ranged from security deployments and policy gestures to persistent accusations of inaction and impunity. International act...
The assembled analyses conclude that the Nigerian government’s response to attacks on Christians in 2023–2024 was widely judged by multiple monitors, with frequent failures of prevention, slow securit...
Fulani herder–farmer clashes and Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgency both contributed to attacks on Christian communities in 2024–2025, but they operate in different theatres and with different motives: . Pol...
There is clear and repeated reporting that large numbers of Christians in Nigeria have been killed in recent years by Islamist militants, armed gangs and violent herder groups, and some advocacy group...
International actors have advanced a portfolio of policy options to reduce Nigeria’s communal and jihadist violence: military and intelligence support, capacity-building for law enforcement and justic...
Northern and central Nigeria face overlapping insecurity driven by multiple, interacting causes: Islamist insurgencies (Boko Haram/ISWAP) in the northeast, armed “bandits” and kidnappers in the northw...