Niamey, Niger: Suspected Boko Haram fighters in motorized canoes attacked a Niger army base on an island in Lake Chad, the body of water touching all four countries that have been targeted by Nigeria's Islamic
Gwoza: Nigeria's military officials boast that they have ousted Boko Haram extremists from all major towns and forest camps in a large area of northern Nigeria, but Associated Press journalists have seen evidence that the
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged continuing US support to Nigeria and its regional partners in the fight against extremist group Boko Haram, a media report said on Thursday.In a separate telephonic talks
United Nations:Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world's total, Amnesty International says in its latest annual report on the death
United Nations: Senior UN officials said on Monday that the Boko Haram militant group has been unable to disrupt the electoral process in Nigeria and following the involvement of regional forces in Nigeria, the area
Abuja: Nigerian military on Friday announced that the troops had taken back the Gwoza town from Boko Haram militants. The terrorist outfit had declared their caliphate from this place last year.Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told
Abuja: At least 10 people were killed in an attack carried out by the Boko Haram militants in a Nigeria-Cameroon border town in Borno state, a security source said Thursday.The attack was carried out in
Cameroon: Cameroon acknowledged that more than two dozen Boko Haram suspects died in custody late last year, but a government spokesman denied the country's army was carrying out regular human rights abuses in its crackdown
A spokesman for the ISIS terror group said Thursday that it had accepted a pledge of loyalty from Nigeria-based Boko Haram that was made last weekend.ISIS' media arm, al-Furqan, released an audio statement by spokesman
Washington: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has announced that its leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Muslim world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has accepted the pledge of allegiance from the Nigeria-based Boko Haram.A 28-minute audio
Beirut: Nigerian-grown extremist group Boko Haram has been weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern Nigerian towns. But its new Twitter account, increasingly slick and more frequent video
Abuja:At least four people were killed and 20 injured in a blast in northern Nigeria's Borno state on Tuesday, according to media reports.The blast occurred in Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno state, around 4
Maiduguri, Nigeria: Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.The pledge to IS
Maiduguri, Nigeria: A suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi blew himself up outside a busy Saturday fish market and killed at least 10 people in Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, according to witnesses
Niamey: The Niger Parliament has unanimously approved deployment of troops to Nigeria alongside other forces from neighbouring countries to fight against Boko Haram sect.The Nigerien constitution stipulates that before deployment of the country's defence and
Yaounde: About 30 passengers of a bus were kidnapped on Monday by suspected Boko Haram militants in a town in Cameroon along the border with Nigeria, military sources told Xinhua.The kidnapping took place in Tourou
Yaounde, Cameroon: Suspected Boko Haram fighters launched attacks on three communities in northern Cameroon, abducting more than 30 people including those aboard a packed bus, residents said Monday.The assaults by the Nigeria-based terror group came
Abuja: Boko Haram militants have reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on the Cameroonian town of Fotokol on the border with Nigeria.The Islamist militants attacked civilians in their homes and in the
Abuja: Boko Haram militants killed five people in two separate attacks in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe Sunday, witnesses said.One of the attacks, by a suspected suicide bomber, targeted a military checkpoint in the
Abuja: The Boko Haram militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Baga village in Nigeria earlier this month in which hundreds of people were killed, media reported on Wednesday.The group also threatened
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