The Ekklesiayar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN) Disaster Ministry visited two camps in Maiduguri. Shagari has 48 households and Cherubim & Seraphim has 65 households. The people are crowded into a small compound with 9-13 people sleeping in one 10X10 “tent” right next to the next one. There is often a lack of sufficient food for
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Maiduguri was an amazing experience
Reflections by Zander I spent five days in Maiduguri. For the three days of trauma healing workshops, I spent each day with a different group. The leaders were Dlama Kagula, Esther (I missed her last name, but the has a master’s from the UK), and Rev. Toma. That was an amazing experience in itself. LCC Maiduri
Tales of Escape
Our newest Nigerian correspondent, Joshua Ishaya, is a fourth year student at Kulp Bible College. Like many others who lived in Nigeria’s northeast he is living as a displaced person. When my wife and I went and visited Nigeria in November, Joshua looked much thinner than the last time we had seen him. His eyes
Stories from Nigeria: An Island in the Desert
By Carl and Roxane Hill, co-directors of the Nigeria Crisis Response currently in Nigeria Maiduguri is the Capitol city of Borno State located in northeast Nigeria. It has many distinctions. One is that it is credited as the birthplace of the Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram. It is the largest city in all of northeast
Reports from Nigeria: A phone report from Cliff Kindy
Phone Report from Cliff Kindy to Carl and Roxane Hill on Feb. 3, 2015. Cliff is currently a Brethren Disaster Ministries volunteer reporting from Nigeria. Cliff is helping organize a Peace and Democracy Conference in Yola: promoting civic responsibility as the national elections draw near (scheduled for 14 February) He will accompany delegates from the Swiss
Reports from Nigeria: Maiduguri
By Cliff Kindy, Brethren Disaster Ministries volunteer reporting from Nigeria Maiduguri is the capital city of Borno State. It is home to about 2 million residents. It has the distinction of being known as the birthplace of Boko Haram. It is also home to many churches that belong to EYN (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria).