Source: Associated Press By ISMAIL ALFA ABDULRAHIM MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed more than 60 people in an attack on villagers leaving a funeral in northeastern […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ruth Maclean in Dakar Thousands of people have fled into Cameroon from north-east Nigeria following violent attacks by a faction of the militant group Boko Haram, which looted and […]
Source: Reuters NIAMEY (Reuters) – Troops and air strikes have killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants since the Niger government started an operation against the group last week, the […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Ali Abare Abubakar ABUJA, Nigeria (RNS) — Two years ago, Modu Bukar, a local leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, was gunned down in […]
Counsellors on motorbikes put Boko Haram survivors on road to recovery Source: The Guardian BY Festus Iyorah in Wulari Cletus Nicholas takes his life in his hands when he gets […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria now faces a deadlier threat than its own Boko Haram insurgency, with fighting between farmers and herdsmen over scare […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – As violence-torn Africa grows weary of solutions that haven’t worked, Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan is proposing a controversial alternative: Negotiate with […]
Source: Reuters BY Paul Carsten, Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA/MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – From the shores of Lake Chad, Islamic State’s West African ally is on a mission: winning over the local people. […]
Source: The New York Times Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now The New York Times met and photographed dozens of the students abducted by Boko Haram. Now at a university, they say they are the lucky ones. But their celebrity has a price. By Dionne Searcey […]
Source: The Guardian Ruth Maclean west Africa correspondent and Isaac Abrak in Dapchi The only Christian girl among the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month could have been freed along […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA and BASHIR ADIGUN LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 […]
Source: BBC News Nearly all of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants in the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says. Officials said at least […]
Source: The New York Times By JONATHAN GOPEP, DIONNE SEARCEY and EMMANUEL AKINWOTU MARCH 18, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari addressing the parents of the kidnapped girls in Dapchi, Nigeria, on Wednesday. He has said […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ruth Maclean West Africa correspondent and agencies Dozens of people have been killed by a suicide bomb attack during morning prayers in a mosque in north-east Nigeria. Boko […]
Source: Reuters By Felix Onuah and Ahmed Kingimi | ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from […]
Source: The Guardian Attackers loyal to faction headed by Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, son of Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf Chibok school girls who escaped from Boko Haram in 2014. The […]
Source: The New York Times By DIONNE SEARCEY and ASHLEY GILBERTSON MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — She hears the awful sounds in her dreams. They are the moans of a dying girl. […]
Source: BBC The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. “The terrorists are on the run […]
Source: BBC Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. […]
Source: BBC Nigeria’s army says it has killed several commanders of the Islamist group Boko Haram in an air strike and seriously wounded its disputed leader. An army spokesman told […]