Boko Haram

July 9, 2022

Some 300 inmates on run after suspected Boko Haram raid on Nigeria prison

Abuja, Nigeria – Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on…

May 15, 2022

Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his visit to the country,…

July 21, 2021

LAGOS, July 21 (Reuters) – Police and government authorities have secured the release of 100 people, including women, children and…

July 21, 2021

Ghana — although surrounded by terror-hit countries — appears at first glance to have been largely spared from terrorist attacks. According…

March 2, 2021

GUSAU, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state…

December 18, 2020

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released,…

April 14, 2019

Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls…

February 12, 2019

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Baba Inuwa was pleased to move back to his vegetable farm in Nigeria’s northeast, encouraged by…

February 7, 2019

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerians will on Feb. 16 choose between two septuagenarians to lead Africa’s largest democracy: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu…

January 10, 2019

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria after an increase in violence in the Boko…