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Kidnapped Oil Workers Speak On Boko Haram Video

Boko Haram Islamists have published a video showing three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team, after an ambush...

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Boko Haram Suspects Killed, Tortured In Cameroon Custody

Dozens of Boko Haram suspects have died in Cameroon custody, rights group Amnesty International said Thursday, with...

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Boko Haram Suspects Tortured In Cameroon, Amnesty Says

Suspected Boko Haram fighters have been “brutally tortured” by security forces in Cameroon, a rights group says....

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Call For Boko Haram Peace Talks Masks Ethnic Tensions

A group of community elders in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram has waged a bloody eight-year insurgency are urging...

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Cameroon Elite Army Boat Capsizes Leaving Many Missing

Only three people have been rescued so far after a Cameroonian army vessel carrying 37 people capsized off the...

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Boko Haram Executes Eight For Defying ‘Sharia Police’

Boko Haram have publicly executed eight villagers in northeast Nigeria who opposed the enforcement of its hardline form...

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Rescued Chibok Girls Won’t Be Going Back To Home Town For School

The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's...

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Boko Haram Video Confirms Some Chibok Girls Against Release

Some Boko Haram girls are said to have refused to be released by their abductors A recent Boko Haram video has...

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Freed Boko Haram Fighter Says Group Ready To Attack Abuja

A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a video seen by...

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Boko Haram’s Shekau Rejects Air Strike Injury Claims

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video published online on Thursday, rejecting claims he had been...

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Cameroon Jails RFI Journalist For 10 Years

A Cameroon military tribunal on Monday sentenced a Radio France International correspondent to 10 years in prison for...

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Verdict Due In Case of RFI Reporter Accused of Helping Boko Haram

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

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Rise In Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers ‘alarming’

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

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Boko Haram Faction Kills Four Soldiers

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

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Boko Haram’s Shekau Reappears, Criticises Cameroon ‘lies’

Boko Haram's elusive leader has made his first appearance in months, claiming responsibility for a spate of suicide...

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Niger Puts 1,000 ‘Boko Haram Fighters’ On Trial

Niger has begun the trials behind closed doors of about 1,000 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist movement,...

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Donors Pledge $672 Mn In Aid For Lake Chad Region

Donor countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged $672 million (634 million euros) in emergency aid for people...

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More Boko Haram Fighters Surrender

Authorities in Niger have said that around 20 more members of the jihadist group Boko Haram have surrendered in the...

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‘Boko Haram’ Features On Al Jazeera Thursday Night

International media started paying attention to Boko Haram in April 2014 when the group abducted over 250 school girls...