Burkina Faso Militant Attack
Twelve soldiers have been killed and two are missing after an attack by Islamist militants near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali, the army has said. Insurgents who carried out the attack did so on...
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Two ‘young Girls’ Used As Human Bombs
Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. Police in the town of Maiduguri, Borno state, say...
Two ‘young Girls’ Used As Human Bombs
Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. Police in the town of Maiduguri, Borno state, say...
At Least 30 Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack In Northeast Nigerian
The suicide attack was carried on by two women in a busy market At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Madagali in Adamawa state, the army...
Boko Haram Still A Threat Despite Gains In Flushing Them Out – Ibn Chambas
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office of West Africa (UNOWA), Dr Ibn Chambas says though progress has been made in flushing out militant group,...
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 group says. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had spoken to 43 victims who had been...
83 Nigerian Soldiers Missing In Boko Haram Attack
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...
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 Muhammad Sabitu's story Sansanin' Yan Gudun Hijira (meaning "Refugee Camp" in Hausa)...
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, but the military will not reinstate them, Public Affairs Director of the GAF,...
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 eye on people passing in the centre of Maroua, capital of Cameroon's Far North...
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 military said Monday. The attacks bring the official toll to 10 troops killed and 24...
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 into their countries is not the solution to winning the war against terrorism....
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 Chad troops in the Diffa region of southeast Niger this week, an official said...
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 election that was originally slated for Saturday 10th September 2016, I was in a...
27 Killed, 150 Injured after Al-Qaeda Attack in Burkina Faso
The overnight seizure of a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso's capital by al-Qaida-linked extremists ended Saturday when Burkina Faso and French security forces killed four jihadist attackers and freed...