Haruna Umar, ASSOCIATED PRESS BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, killing...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
(BBC) – The US says it will give $5m (£3.2m) towards a multi-national task force being set up to fight Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram....
Dany Padire, ASSOCIATED PRESS N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Suicide bombers on motorcycles simultaneously attacked two buildings including the national police academy in Chad’s capital...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola, killing 29...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian military abuses have caused the deaths of some 8,000 civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists,...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram once again attacked the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, waking...
Julia Payne, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) — New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militants of Boko Haram...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s army has sacked at least 200 soldiers for cowardice and failure to fight against Boko Haram militants, several soldiers have told the BBC....
(BBC) – The UN children’s agency says there has been an “alarming” increase in the number of suicide attacks in northern Nigeria, with many of them...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — The accusations against a woman who was rescued from Boko Haram abductors came from...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC) — Streets are deserted with markets, schools and hospitals shut in the densely populated city, reports say. The army said the lockdown...
(BBC) – Two militants have attacked a business college in Potiskum in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe. At least six students were seriously injured by...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press GAIDAM, Nigeria (AP) — Niger troops have deported more than 3,000 Nigerian fishermen and refugees escaping Boko Haram, forcing them to undertake...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A year ago, a dozen Nigerian troops fighting about 200 Boko Haram militants in the town of Chibok...
LAGOS (The Daily Beast) — “I was asked to kill my parents on the day I was captured,” said 16-year-old Babagana, a former Boko Haram...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. One...
(BBC) – The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active....
(BBC) – Nigerian ground troops have joined an offensive on the last known hideout of the Boko Haram Islamist militants, a military spokesman has told the...
Organization Helps Those Who Escaped from Boko Haram Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer With a slow but steady gait, a petite young woman...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — President-elect Muhammadu Buhari says he cannot promise to find the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists one...
(USA Today) – People worldwide are marking one year since Boko Haram militants abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, sparking global outrage. The girls were kidnapped from...
Kevin Sieff, THE WASHINGTON POST NAIROBI (The Washington Post) — After years in a Boko Haram camp, the children had forgotten their native language. They...
(BBC) – The winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a defiant vow against militants Boko Haram, saying they would “soon know the strength...
