Nigerian Islamist Conflict Kills 1,500 in 2014, Amnesty Says

Nigerian security forces and Islamist militants are violating international law in a struggle that’s killed at least 1,500 people so far this year, more than half of them civilians, Amnesty International said.

“The escalation of violence in northeastern Nigeria in 2014 has developed into a situation of non-international armed conflict in which all parties are violating international humanitarian law,” Netsanet Belay, research and advocacy director for Africa at the London-based group, said today in a statement.