The Directorate of State, DOS, of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has formally disbanded the use of the pseudonym ...

In the weeks leading up to the release of In God We Trust, Inc., Nazi Punks Fuck Off was released as a seven-inch single, which was packaged with a free anti-swastika armband, cementing its place in ...

Jello Biafra, former Dead Kennedys frontman and outspoken Bay Area punk icon, is parting with a car as storied as his career: his 1989 Toyota Celica GT convertible. After nearly three decades as his ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced a Biafra-wide solidarity lockdown scheduled for Monday, February 2, 2026, in support of traders affected by the closure of the Onitsha Main Market ...

Nigerian security forces have killed at least 150 pro-Biafra supporters, some by extrajudicial executions, since August 2015, according to Amnesty International. In a report published Thursday, the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On April 5, gunmen attacked a prison in Owerri, Nigeria, freeing 1,844 inmates.

Nigeria's security forces must deal cautiously with pro-Biafra protests on Tuesday, a year after dozens were killed in similar protests, Amnesty International has said. Tuesday marks the 50th ...

The separatist group, Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), has disowned what it described as “impostors and unauthorised claims of leadership” following a gathering that purportedly appointed ...

On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region of Nigeria an independent state—the Republic of Biafra. [Getty Images] Biafra Day is not just a day of remembrance—it’s ...

Since Uli airport, 90 minutes’ flying time from Sāo Tomé, is shrunken Biafra’s lone remaining link with the world, the night shuttle frequently hauls passengers as well. A visitor has to be nerveless ...

From the outset, the war between Nigeria and secessionist Biafra loomed as an unequal contest. It was not surprising that, as in the earlier Congo conflicts, foreign mercenaries were drawn to Biafra ...

Reporting from ABA, Nigeria — Every evening as 5 o’clock approaches, the clogged, perpetually dusty streets of this industrial city in southeastern Nigeria begin to empty. Groups of men just off work ...