Boko Haram

Amnesty International said on Friday that Nigeria's army killed hundreds of men, women and children from a minority Shi'ite Muslim…

Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, an important ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants, won a fifth…

Nigeria's army arrested the leader of Islamist militant group Ansaru, a splinter faction of Boko Haram that has been accused…

Egypt is to offer one thousand military-training scholarships to African nations, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday during a…

Cameroon mounted a major assault against a key Boko Haram base in Nigeria last week, inflicting heavy losses on the…

Piles of rubble are all that remain of the residence of Nigeria's most prominent Shi'ite Muslim leader after it was…

Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the…

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children…

Scores of people were feared killed when Boko Haram Islamists attacked a village on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast…

A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded at least one in an attack on a mosque in…