Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
A suspected Boko Haram attack in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed 15 people and wounded 68, an emergency agency official said on Monday,...
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Suicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in northeast Nigeria
A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with Islamist insurgency...
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill nine, abduct dozens in Niger
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants killed nine people and abducted dozens more in southern Niger on Sunday night, the local mayor and a journalist said. The attackers rode...
Buhari says Nigeria army captured key Boko Haram camp
NIGERIA’S army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group’s last enclave in the vast northeastern Sambisa forest that was its stronghold,...
Abducted Chibok schoolgirl in Nigeria found by army
One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram from their school in north-east Nigeria’s Chibok in 2014 has been found...
Boko Haram frees 21 kidnapped Chibok girls
By Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the...
Nigeria would let Boko Haram pick NGO intermediary in talks to free Chibok girls
Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the...
Nigerian air force says kills top Boko Haram militants as Kerry arrives
Nigeria’s air force said it had killed a number of senior Boko Haram fighters and possibly their overall leader, as US Secretary of State John...
Boko Haram video claims to show missing Nigerian school girls
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying some...
Islamic State names new leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram
Islamic State has named a new leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian militant group which last year swore allegiance to it. Abu Musab al-Barnawi was...
Boko Haram shoot dead 18 women at funeral in northern Nigeria
Boko Haram militants have shot dead 18 women at a funeral in Nigeria’s northeast, rampaging through a village, setting houses on fire and shooting at...
Second ‘Chibok girl’ rescued, says Nigerian army
A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town...
Nigerian army going in to get Chibok girls, governor says (Update 2)
Nigeria will do what it can to rescue more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago in the north-east, President Muhammadu...
Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after two years as Boko Haram captive (Update 2)
A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a...
Missing Nigerian girls identified in new video as calls renew to find them (Updated)
By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani A group of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram exactly two years ago have been identified in a...
Fear spreads as child suicide bombings surge in West Africa
By Katy Migiro Boko Haram child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold in West Africa over the last year, with children as young as 8, mostly...
Two suicide bombers kill 22 at mosque in north-east Nigeria’s Maiduguri
By Lanre Ola Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people on Wednesday at a mosque outside the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of...
Female suicide bombers kill over 60 people in northeast Nigeria
Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group in...
At least 65 people killed, some burned beyond recognition, in attack in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said...
At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in north Nigeria
By Lanre Ola At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern...