Tag: Boko Haram insurgency

Nineteen people have now been confirmed dead after four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, police ...

A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it ...

At least 15 people were killed when four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, police said ...

Sixteen-year-old Aisha slips into the white family planning tent at the Bakassi camp for displaced people in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, ...

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three military bases ...

One civilian was killed and two others injured Saturday when four female bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon's Far North, ...

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the conflict ...

Authorities in north-eastern Nigeria have begun digging a 27km (17 mile) trench around the University of Maiduguri to prevent attacks ...

Eight Chadian soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents at the weekend on islands on Lake Chad, ...

Five people have been killed in a landmine explosion and a roadside ambush in northeast Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram ...

In 2013, thousands of young men formed a rag-tag militia and rounded up Boko Haram members in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, ...

Boko Haram gunmen killed eight members of a civilian militia force on Sunday, hiding in trees and opening fire as ...

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease ...

Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast ...

Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious ...

Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to demand the payment ...

Aid agencies warn that humanitarian efforts against hunger in northeastern Nigeria are dangerously underfunded and some communities remain cut off ...

A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 ...

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month were reunited ...

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early ...