While the world looks away, millions of innocent Nigerians remain displaced, denied, and lied about — many for more than a decade.

Survivors are bulldozed. Killers receive "rehabilitation" and jobs.

This is not a tribal conflict. It’s a calculated campaign of displacement and domination — fueled by jihadist terror, official corruption, and brutal political ambition.

The Nigerian government and their praise-singing, chop-chop press have lied to the nation and the world for over ten years. They call genocide victims "criminals" and their communities "rural clusters" while violently suppressing the truth and rewarding perpetrators.

Yet despite it all, the displaced endure. And it’s time they had a voice.

 
What We Demand

From the Government of Nigeria:

• Acknowledge the full scope and true causes of Nigeria’s displacement crisis.
• Stop calling survivors "vagrants" or "criminals." 
• Bring swift and sure justice to the killers, along with all public officials who encourage, support or willfully turn a blind eye.
• Establish an independent, non-political, bi-faith Nigerian Peace and Justice Commission — empowered to investigate, report, and architect meaningful reform.
• Recognize and Support All IDP encampments - formal and "informal."
• Undertake a full census of Nigerian IDPs. Provide direct relief and demand the same of the UN and aid agencies.
• Return occupied lands to IDPs. Where that is no longer possible, provide secure alternatives with legal title.
• Reconstruct or compensate for destroyed homes, churches, mosques, schools, businesses, farms, etc.
• Protect Religious Liberty: Guarantee freedom of religion for all Nigerians. Enact firm measures to prevent further persecution.
• Educate the Displaced Generation - Fund tuition, training, and support for youth born into displacement. Break the cycle.
   

From the United States Government:

• Re-list Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" on the Religious Persecution Watchlist.
• Direct the State Department to conduct a full humanitarian assessment of Nigeria’s IDP crisis.
• Hold the UN accountable: Require UNHCR and World Food Program to serve ALL camps and verify who receives aid.
• Grant asylum to displaced Nigerians fleeing religious persecution.
• Leverage sanctions and trade to compel sunlight and justice in Nigeria, including criminal prosecution of all who have played a part or corruptly benefitted from this crisis.
• Launch a Congressional investigation into the crisis, including any role the U.S. has played in causing it.

 
Who We Are

Africa Arise International is an independent nonprofit that has worked in Nigeria since 2019. We operate schools for displaced children, document ongoing atrocities, and amplify the voices of survivors. Our five+ year investigative documentary Me & Ms. Hanatu is now in post-production.

IDPJustice.org is our campaign to mobilize global attention and action on behalf of Nigeria’s displaced.

They deserve a voice. They deserve justice. Help us shine a light.

 

 

“A peaceful and prosperous nation can only stand on a foundation of justice. Economic and policy reforms are just powder on a bleeding wound — empty gestures that serve only those in power — when an entire generation lives displaced, denied, forgotten, and crushed by the very government meant to protect them.”— Mike Arnold, Founder of Africa Arise International

 

“The international community has the mandate and resources to help care for these people. I am disappointed how this multitude of victims has seemingly fallen through the cracks. We can and must do better.” -- US Ambassador (ret) Lewis Lucke, Africa Arise advisor. 

 

See more at www.IDPjustice.org 

Africa Arise website: www.LetUsRiseAfrica.org

For more about the upcoming documentary film, visit www.MeAndMsHanatu.com

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VIDEOS: Africa Arise founder calls out UN for denying existence of IDP camps in Abuja, Nigeria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News story from AriseTV, a national news network in Nigeria, Nov. 21, 2023. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nov. 2023 photos from New Kuchingoro and Durumi IDP Camps, Abuja, Nigeria. (According to the United Nations, this camp and these people don't exist.)