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...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A leading human rights group said Thursday that Nigeria-based Boko Haram had killed more than 1,000 civilians already this year and forced hundreds of...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of civilians, including many children, have been abducted and are being used...
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,...
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) – 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...
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...