Tag: Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria

A verdict is due Thursday in the trial by military court of Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalist Ahmed Abba, who ...

Nine Nigerian soldiers were killed and 14 others are missing feared abducted after an attack this week by suspected Boko ...

The Nigerian army on Wednesday launched a monthlong operation to reduce violence in the center of the country, as ethnically ...

A two-day-old baby boy cries as his parents take seats in a Cameroonian military truck in the border town of ...

Three people were killed and four others wounded on Wednesday in a suicide attack in Cameroon's restive Far North, a ...

Ali Mustapha made a shocking confession when he was arrested by the troops of the Nigeria Army at the centre ...

Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their ...

A bloody clash between the army and police in Nigeria's restive northeastern Yobe state left one soldier and three police ...

An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the ...

The Trump administration plans to sell fighter planes to Nigeria despite concerns over rights abuses and a botched air strike ...

US President Donald's Trump administration will press ahead with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria to help it fight ...

Nigeria's military says it has released 593 people held on suspicion of being linked to militant Islamist group Boko Haram, ...

Niger troops have killed 57 Boko Haram jihadists during fighting in the southeast Niger, a security source told AFP Monday. ...

Ali Mustapha made a shocking confession when he was arrested by the troops of the Nigeria Army at the centre ...

The Islamists opened fire on an army convoy heading to the small town of Gulumba Boko Haram jihadists have killed ...

A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group known as Young Cadres has called on Ghanaians to stop the menace of vigilante ...

The attack on the judiciary by members of the Delta Force threatens the security of the country, Patrick Stephenson, a ...

Boko Haram jihadists have torched a military base in northeast Nigeria, a day after the group killed seven people in ...

A Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Isaac Olawale Albert, has advised African countries ...

Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, according to residents and ...