Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked villagers in the village of Godogodo, Nigeria on October 15 with guns and machetes, burning down homes, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens more. It was the second attack on the predominantly Christian village in as many months. The Morning Star News’ field reporter in Nigeria, Obed Minchakpu, spoke … Read more
An official said the killings were to avenge the death of one of ISIL’s commanders Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians, including children, after abducting them in the remote Afghan province of Ghor, according to an Afghan police official. Suspected ISIL fighters killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday in the Firozkoh district in revenge … Read more
After her husband was killed by a Boko Haram suicide bomber late last year, Hajjagana Mbasaru was forced to pull her children from school and rely on friends to feed them. Like other widows of civilians fighting the Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria, she spent long months waiting for any kind of government support. Finally, … Read more
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote military base in the northeast, senior army officers said Sunday. The soldiers were unable to fight back and fled because Boko Haram had superior fire power, the officers told The Associated Press, speaking on condition … Read more
The BBC Hausa Service has announced the winner of its first short-story competition aimed at women writers. Aisha Muhammad Sabitu’s story Sansanin’ Yan Gudun Hijira (meaning “Refugee Camp” in Hausa) beat off competition from more than 200 other stories. Ms Sabityu, who is from Katsina in Nigeria, says she was inspired to write the story … Read more
Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been reunited with their families. In an emotional ceremony in the capital Abuja, one of the girls said they had survived for 40 days without food and narrowly escaped death at least once. It is unclear … Read more
The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle Turkish-backed rebels have captured the symbolically important Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, rebel commanders and monitors say. The rebels took Dabiq after “IS members withdrew”, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The … Read more
In the early hours of Thursday morning, 21 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls were released by their Boko Haram captors in the town of Banki close to Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, security sources told the BBC. They were handed over to a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross who provided assistance during … Read more
Two of the dismissed recruits of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have revealed on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, they have received offers from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Boko Haram after they stated that, they were being compelled to join these militant groups. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Kwame Tutu … Read more
The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal, his lawyer has said. Jaber al-Bakr, 22, hanged himself in a jail in Leipzig with his shirt and the government has demanded an immediate inquiry. His lawyer said the prison was aware Bakr … Read more
Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued. The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has said that the dismissed military recruits who have threatened to join ISIS are free to do so. GAF dismissed some 501 military recruits in December 2015 for staging an unauthorised protest which officials say was mutinous. The recruits, who were undergoing a six-month mandatory training at the Army Recruits … Read more
A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany, officials say. Saxony’s state justice ministry said Jaber al-Bakr was found dead and that an investigation had been launched. He had been turned in to police on Monday by three Syrian refugees … Read more
The 501 army recruits who were dismissed by the Ghana Armed Forces in 2015 are free to decide wherever they want to go, but the military will not reinstate them, Public Affairs Director of the GAF, Lt Col Eric Aggrey-Quashie, has said. In an interview with Adom FM, the convener of the dismissed recruits, Frank … Read more
Some 501 sacked Army recruits have threatened to join terrorist groups like ISIS or Boko Haram after what they say is unfair treatment after they were unceremoniously dumped out of boot camp. According to the recruits, even though some of their colleagues were found wanting by the instructors, they had never claimed the training was … Read more
More than two-thirds of the foreigners seeking to join the Islamic State (IS) group have attended high school or university, according to a new study by the World Bank. Many of the young recruits who travel to Syria or Iraq to join the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) group – also known as ISIS, … Read more
Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been told to leave the schools they are occupying or face forceful eviction by UN troops. The UN says 10,000 children have been unable to resume their education this year because militiamen have set up base in their schools. A third of all schools have either … Read more
Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) – With his finger on the trigger, ready to fire his weapon in an instant, a policeman keeps an eye on people passing in the centre of Maroua, capital of Cameroon’s Far North region that has been a target of Boko Haram Islamists. It’s been more than a year since a string … Read more
Lagos (AFP) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari appealed Friday for the international community to help relieve the growing humanitarian disaster triggered by the Boko Haram insurgency in a plea for aid at the UN General Assembly. Warnings about food shortages caused by the conflict in the country’s northeast and the broader Lake Chad region have … Read more
N’Djamena (AFP) – Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadists have killed four Chadian soldiers in a cross-border raid in the volatile Lake Chad region, a security source told AFP on Sunday. “Around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday night, Boko Haram members attacked the Djoroye border post near the Niger border in the Lake Chad region killing … Read more