West African offensive
Nigerian Chibok Girl Found With Baby
The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby....
Boko Haram Has Not Been Crushed
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim by the Nigerian president and...
Army Searching For Chibok Girls Seized By Boko Haram
After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the...
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 In Cameroon Market
A suicide bomber in the northern Cameroon town of Mora killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a market full...
Freed Chibok Girls Reunited With Their Families For Christmas
More than 20 Nigerian "Chibok girls" who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their...
Boko Haram ‘ousted From Sambisa Forest Bastion’
The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, President...
Some 14 Million In Northeast Nigeria May Need Humanitarian Aid In 2017
Around 14 million people will need humanitarian help in the former northeast Nigerian stronghold region of Boko Haram...
Bomb Blast By Nigeria Barracks In Maiduguri
A bomb has exploded behind one of the military barracks in Nigeria’s north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The BBC's...
The Boko Haram Menace And The Inactions of The International Community
The struggle against the evil extremist Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria suffered a terrible setback last week with the...
Nigerians Pay Tribute To ‘war King’ Killed By Boko Haram
Tributes are being paid to a Nigerian army commander nicknamed "war king" after he was killed by Islamist militants...
Nigerian Army Rescues Another Chibok Girl
The Nigerian Army says that it has rescued another one of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School...
How To Protect the Chibok Girls From Reliving Their Horror
How to protect the Chibok girls from reliving their horror The Chibok girls who moved to the US in 2014 have had to...
Nigeria-Boko Haram-Missing Soldiers Story
In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military...
Boko Haram Overruns Nigerian Military Base In Northeast
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers...
Nigeria Denies Boko Haram Prisoner Swap
Boko Haram seized 276 pupils from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven...
Boko Haram Frees 21 Chibok Girls
Boko Haram militants handed over 21 missing Chibok schoolgirls to the Nigerian government Thursday morning, according...
Nigerian Lawmakers To Probe Use of Funds For People Fleeing Boko Haram
The use of Nigerian government funds earmarked for assisting displaced people who are living in desperate conditions in...
Boko Haram Leaves Nigeria A Lifetime of Mental Trauma
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - The soldier clutched his book with both hands. He shouted his name, rank and Nigerian Army...
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...