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Cameroon army kills 86 Boko Haram militants
Cameroon’s army says it has killed 86 Boko Haram militants and detained 1,000 people suspected of links to the Islamist group, as central African...
Boko Haram launches fierce attack on Nigerian city, warns against voting
Heavily armed Boko Haram militants attacked the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Saturday but were later repelled, a government security source said.
Boko Haram launches first attack in Chad
Nigeria’s Boko Haram rebels carried out their first attack inside neighbouring Chad, targeting a village on the shores of Lake Chad as part of a...
Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria kill 21 villagers
At least 21 people were killed in two separate Boko Haram attacks on villages near the key city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, a community leader and...
Nigeria delays presidential vote by six weeks over security fears
Nigeria’s presidential election was on Saturday postponed on security grounds, handing a potential lifeline to the ruling party as it battles a persistent...
Female suicide bomber hits Nigeria president’s rally
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday escaped a suspected suicide bomb blast after he left a campaign rally in northeast Nigeria, as the country braced...
Nigerian military repels Boko Haram after second attack on northeast city
Nigeria’s military on Sunday repelled a Boko Haram assault on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri as violence raged across the region just two weeks...
Second wave: Boko Haram attacks northeast Nigeria’s main city again
Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, their second assault in a week on a city they hope to make the...
Nigeria military says NE town retaken from Boko Haram
Nigeria’s military on Friday said it had retaken the northeast town of Michika from Boko Haram after weeks of unrest that reportedly killed dozens...
Nigeria military warned before major Boko Haram attacks: Amnesty
Amnesty International on Wednesday claimed that Nigeria’s military top brass were warned of brutal Boko Haram attacks on the northeast towns of Baga...
Suspected Boko Haram militants attack major Nigeria northern city
Suspected Boko Haram militants began attacking Nigeria’s major northeastern city of Maiduguri just after midnight on Sunday, military, government...
Nigeria says UN force not needed to tackle Boko Haram
Nigeria’s top security official on Friday ruled out the need for a United Nations or African Union-backed force to fight Boko Haram, saying the country...
Boko Haram fighters kidnap around 80 in deadly Cameroon attack
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border...
Nigeria’s neighbours band together to fight Boko Haram
Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched a regional bid to combat the Boko Haram Islamists, as their attacks spread beyond Nigeria and concern mounts over...
Boko Haram’s insurgency now one of the deadliest conflicts on earth
The insurgency in Northern Nigeria is now one of the deadliest conflicts on earth, with more than 6,000 people killed in 2014 and nearly 10,500 dead since...
'Deadliest massacre': why does Nigeria struggle to stop Boko Haram?
In the latest campaign by the African Islamic militant group Boko Haram, hundreds of gunmen reportedly overtook the town of Baga, its neighboring villages,...
Bring Back our Boys: Boko Haram seizes 40 boys and men from Nigerian village
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in northeast Nigerian state Borno on New Year’s Eve, according...
Suicide bomber injures Nigerian churchgoers hours after 7 die in bus bomb
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an evangelist church in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, injuring several people.
Nigeria struggles to combat Boko Haram as militants kill, kidnap dozens
Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 185 people, including women and children, from a Nigerian village, carting hostages away on trucks towards Sambisa Forest,...
54 Nigerian soldiers sentenced to death for not fighting Boko Haram
Nigeria has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to fight Islamic extremists. The court-martial charges all were...
Boko Haram kills 48 fish vendors in northeast Nigeria
Boko Haram gunmen have killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria’s restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of the fish traders association...
Despite gov’t claims, Boko Haram dashes hopes of Chibok girls’ return
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said more than 200 girls kidnapped by the group six months ago had been “married off”...
Boko Haram says Chibok’s kidnapped schoolgirls have been ‘married off’
Boko Haram has claimed the 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped in Nigeria earlier this year have converted to Islam and been married off, according to a new video...
Kidnapped women ‘used by Boko Haram on front line’: rights group
Boko Haram has used kidnapped young women and girls on the front lines of its insurgency, according to a new report published on Monday, after a fresh...
Fears Boko Haram’s deadly reign could peak, French general says
Cameroonian troops killed 39 Boko Haram fighters in clashes with the Islamists who were carrying out three raids on the West African country’s territory.
Nigerian elders question Boko Haram ‘ceasefire’ deal
Nigeria’s government may have negotiated a supposed ceasefire with only one faction of Boko Haram, an influential regional group has said, as violence...
Suspected Boko Haram fighters continue to terrorize Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed several people in two attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a ceasefire...
Boko Haram ‘agrees truce and release of 219 kidnapped Nigerian girls’
Nigeria’s presidency says it has agreed a ceasefire with militants Boko Haram which would see the return of 219 kidnapped girls.
Boko Haram frees 27 hostages in Cameroon
Twenty-seven hostages seized by suspected militants from Boko Haram in Cameroon this year, including 10 Chinese workers, have been released, the Cameroon...
Back from the dead? Boko Haram ‘leader’ appears in new video
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday, contradicting Nigerian military reports that he had been killed.
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