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...
(BBC) – Kenya’s interior minister has said security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month. Joseph Nkaisserry, who...
(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) – The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active....
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — The unusual announcement by President Barack Obama last week that a U.S. strike on an al Qaida compound in Pakistan inadvertently had killed two...
(Independent) – Islamic extremists suspected over a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against...
(Independent) – Islamic extremists suspected over a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against...
(BBC) – Suspected al-Shabab militants have abducted and killed a traditional chief in northern Kenya, a local elder says. Chief Muktar Otieno was seized early on...
(BBC) – Suspected al-Shabab militants have abducted and killed a traditional chief in northern Kenya, a local elder says. Chief Muktar Otieno was seized early on...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
(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...
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...
GARISSA, Kenya (Wall Street Journal) – One year ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta declared on television that the era of insecurity was over for Kenyans. He vowed that...
(BBC) – Kenyans have taken to the streets and to social media to express their grief at the death of 148 people in the al-Shabab attack...
(BBC) – The bodies of many of those killed by Islamist militants at a Kenyan university are being moved to the capital Nairobi for identification. At...
(BBC) – The bodies of many of those killed by Islamist militants at a Kenyan university are being moved to the capital Nairobi for identification. At...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KHALIL SENOSI, Associated Press GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KHALIL SENOSI, Associated Press GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at...
DALATOU MAMANE, Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Soldiers fended off an attack on a border town in Niger by Boko Haram and destroyed a base...