ACLED

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project

APC

All Progressives Congress

BLA

Biafran Liberation Army

BRGIE

Biafra Republic Government in Exile

CEAS

Common European Asylum System

CEDAW

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

CJEU

Court of Justice of the European Union

CJTF

Civilian Joint Task Force

COI

Country of origin information

ESN

Eastern Security Network

EUAA

European Union Agency for Asylum

EU

European Union

EU+ countries

Member States of the European Union and associated countries

FGM/C

Female genital mutilation or cutting

GBV

Gender-based violence

IDPs

Internally Displaced Persons

IEDs

Improvised explosive devices

IPA

Internal Protection Alternative

IPOB

Indigenous People of Biafra

ISSP

Islamic State Sahel Province

ISWAP

Islamic State West Africa Province

JAS

Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad

Juju

A term commonly used to describe a spiritual belief system that involves the use of objects like amulets and the casting of spells

LGBTIQ

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (persons)

LGA

Local Government Area

Member States

Member States of the European Union

MMIA

Murtala Muhammed International Airport

MNJTF

Multinational Joint Task Force

NAF

Nigerian Armed Forces

NAPTIP

National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons

NAIA

Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport

NPF

Nigerian Police Force

PDP

People's Democratic Party

NSCDC

Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps

QD (recast)

Qualification Directive — Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (recast)

QR

Qualification Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on standards for the qualification of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted, amending Council Directive 2003/109/EC and repealing Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.

Refugee Convention

The 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and its 1967 Protocol (referred to in EU asylum legislation and by the CJEU as ‘the Geneva Convention’)

SOGIESC

Sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or sex characteristics

THB

Trafficking in Human Beings

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

VGN

Vigilante Group of Nigeria