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Buhari Orders Probe of Sexual and Rights Abuses In IDPs Camps
Buhari orders probe of sexual and rights abuses in IDPs camps A 17-year-old girl has told of how a policeman raped her...
Nigerian Officials ‘sexually Abusing’ Victims
Women and girls in several camps in the Nigerian town of Maiduguri are being sexually abused by officials, a rights...
Nigeria-Boko Haram-Missing Soldiers Story
In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military...
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Slaughter Dozens of Christians In Nigerian Village
Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked villagers in the village of Godogodo, Nigeria on October 15 with guns and machetes,...
83 Nigerian Soldiers Missing In Boko Haram Attack
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists...
Refugee Story Wins BBC Hausa Women’s Writing Award
The BBC Hausa Service has announced the winner of its first short-story competition aimed at women writers. Aisha...
Chibok Girls Reunite With Families In Nigeria
Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been...
How Was Chibok Girls’ Release Secured?
In the early hours of Thursday morning, 21 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls were released by their Boko Haram...
Chibok Schoolgirls ‘freed’ In Nigeria
Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has...
Sacked Recruits Free To Join ISIS, Boko Haram
The 501 army recruits who were dismissed by the Ghana Armed Forces in 2015 are free to decide wherever they want to go,...
We Are Ready To Join ISIS, Boko Haram – Sacked Ghana Army Recruits
Some 501 sacked Army recruits have threatened to join terrorist groups like ISIS or Boko Haram after what they say is...
Living In Fear of Boko Haram Suicide Bombers In Far North Cameroon
Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) - With his finger on the trigger, ready to fire his weapon in an instant, a policeman keeps an...
4 Chadian Troops Killed In Boko Haram Attack
N'Djamena (AFP) - Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadists have killed four Chadian soldiers in a cross-border raid in the...
8 Soldiers Killed In Attacks By Extremists
Islamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country's...
Nigeria’s Buhari Talks Boko Haram, Niger Delta Avengers, Corruption
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government is not ready to negotiate with Boko Haram until it is clear...
Don’t Shut Your Doors Over Terrorism – Mahama To Western Leaders
Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has told western leaders that shutting their doors to migrants who seek entry...
38 Boko Haram Fighters Killed In South Niger
Thirty-eight Boko Haram Islamist fighters have been killed during military search operations carried out by Niger and...
Shifting Times In Edo State
A few days before President Buhari showed up in Edo state to campaign for his party’s governorship candidate in the...
Nigerians Return To Homes Devastated By Boko Haram
Hundreds of internally displaced people in northern Nigeria are returning home to the villages and towns they fled to...