Tag: Borno

Nigeria kidnappings: more students snatched as army hunts for missing

March 12, 2024

Gunmen kidnapped 15 more students from an Islamic school in northwestern Nigeria, which comes following the abduction of more than 280 children by gunmen in ... Read More

Nigeria: experts warn govt not to ignore ex-Boko Haram fighters’ threats to re-join insurgency

March 7, 2024

Former Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria are threatening they may pick up arms again and join the insurgency out of frustration that they have been ... Read More

Cameroon, Nigeria to reopen border markets and schools in Boko Haram-free areas

August 26, 2022

Markets will be re-opened and schools re-built along the shared border between Cameroon and Nigeria after the area was declared free of Boko Haram militants ... Read More

Nigeria: villages destroyed by the army – AI  

February 14, 2020

Amnesty International called on Friday for an investigation into military operations in northeastern Nigeria, where at least three villages have been razed to the ground ... Read More

Nigeria: at least 60 killed in less than a week

February 13, 2020

An attack Monday on the village of Bakali, in the Giwa region, by several armed attackers killed at least 25 civilians and injured many others. ... Read More

Nigeria: at least 30 civilians killed, many kidnapped by jihadists

February 11, 2020

At least 30 people were killed and many women and children were abducted Sunday evening by the Islamic State Group in West Africa (ISWAP), near ... Read More