Bouazza ben Bouazza and Harold Heckle, ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — With bullets flying and his heart pounding, Spanish tourist Josep Lluis Cusido never...
(Reuters) – Graffiti and Boko Haram’s black and white flags were all that remained of the Islamists in Damasak after troops from Chad and Niger...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a...
(All Africa) – Just a day after launching a joint offensive against the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigerian territory, Niger and Chadian forces recaptured...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram militants are rampaging through northeast Nigerian villages and selectively killing men, boys and members of the...
(The Independent) – Isis has sharpened many people’s sense of paranoia towards Islam. The majority of Muslims have a peaceful reading of the Koran, but...
DANY PADIRE, Associated Press KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MOUNDOU, Chad (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram militants staged their first attack in Chad on Friday, hitting the...
EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters took revenge Thursday on villagers in Cameroon, shooting...
(BBC) – With presidential polls on 14 February, it is clear that some of the potential voters residing in the troubled north-east of Nigeria will not...
(BBC) – Chad’s army says it has killed more than 200 militant Islamists and lost nine men during a battle to recapture a key town in...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The threat posed by Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, will be a focus of U.N. Secretary-General...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing, burning and looting with...
(Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s military failed to protect civilians despite being warned of impending Islamist attacks on two northeastern towns where hundreds died this month, Amnesty...
KADUNA, Nigeria (New York Times) — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his...
(BBC) – In all the glowing coverage of France’s 11 January march for Charlie, there was one omission which was understandable but revealing. No-one said it...
(Reuters) – Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria’s medieval Muslim empires, but for...
(BBC) – A man purporting to be the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist group has said in a video that his fighters carried out a...
MOKI EDWIN KINDZEKA, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — More than 10,000 panic-stricken Cameroonians are fleeing border regions with Nigeria’s Borno state for safer locations following...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys held a protest in New York City on Tuesday to raise awareness about the 200-plus...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The identity of what could be the first “Chibok girl” purportedly freed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria remains in doubt. A...
(CNN) — Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group’s leader, Nigeria’s Defense Ministry said. The...
(BBC) – The main cities in northern Nigeria have been bombed on many occasions. In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali...
African Nation’s Leaders Urged to Take Action by D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Little girls should have the chance to...
