Boko Haram militants have killed 23 soldiers in an attack on a military post in the Lake Chad region, Chad’s armed forces say.

Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, led a mass protest in Abuja on Thursday, calling for the immediate rescue of schoolchildren ...

With the number of child abductions on the rise again in northern Nigeria, in an area ravaged by conflict and recently the ...

By Ben Ezeamalu YAWOTA, Nigeria, June 5 (Reuters) - It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military ...

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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that 27 children were used in suicide attacks by Boko Haram in the first three ...

Boko Haram, the diffuse, apparently grass roots insurrection, has undertaken a current wave of carnage in Nigeria’s northeast. Several of the most recent incidents involve government security forces ...

KANO, Nigeria — Boko Haram jihadists have killed 33 fishermen and loggers in two attacks in Nigeria’s restive Borno state in the country’s northeast, two sources told AFP Wednesday. Monday’s attacks ...

Johannesburg — There were reports emerging Wednesday that Islamic militants had abducted dozens of people near a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. Local media outlets said ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's military killed more than 50 Boko Haram militants in response to drone attacks on military bases in the country's northeast, the army said Thursday. Army spokesperson Sani ...