Boko Haram

At least 60 people have been killed in north east Nigeria after a raid on a village by suspected Boko…

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram denied he had been killed or ousted as chief the jihadist group in an…

Cameroon’s president has vowed to send 2,450 troops to join a regional army to fight Boko Haram, nearly tripling his…

If Chadian President Idriss Deby is to be believed, Abubakar Shekau, the bearded and bandoliered leader of Islamist militant group…

The Nigerian Army on Monday confirmed that its troops had rescued 178 people from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram…

Benin’s president has vowed to contribute 800 troops to a regional force intended to combat the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group…

Two bombs have exploded at a mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigerian city of Jos, killing at least…

Troops from Chad and Niger have discovered what appears to be a mass grave outside the northern Nigerian town of…

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have abducted about 30 people…

A bomb exploded in Niger’s bordertown of Diffa on Monday hours after Islamic sect Boko Haram…

Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, their second assault in a week on…

At least 143 Boko Haram fighters were killed in an attack on a military camp in Cameroon on Monday, a…

Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested is…