Tag: West African offensive

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government ...

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

Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they arrested five suspected Boko Haram militants after a gunfight Sunday, ...

Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 15 people and injuring 45 others in an attack likely staged ...

A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it ...

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

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three military bases ...

Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 37 women and slit the throats of nine other people at a village in southeastern ...

One civilian was killed and two others injured Saturday when four female bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon's Far North, ...

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the conflict ...

Authorities in north-eastern Nigeria have begun digging a 27km (17 mile) trench around the University of Maiduguri to prevent attacks ...

Eight Chadian soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents at the weekend on islands on Lake Chad, ...

In 2013, thousands of young men formed a rag-tag militia and rounded up Boko Haram members in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, ...

Boko Haram gunmen killed eight members of a civilian militia force on Sunday, hiding in trees and opening fire as ...

Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri Wednesday night that killed ...

Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious ...

Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to demand the payment ...

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed six people fighting alongside the military in two separate incidents in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told ...

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early ...

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