Tag: Boko Haram

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

Mass Abduction in Kuriga: Over 100 Nigerian School Students Kidnapped

March 8, 2024

The abduction of more than 100 Nigerian school students reportedly occurred in the town of Kuriga in the north-western region. Witnesses stated that armed individuals ... 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

Boko Haram abducts scores of women in Nigeria’s North-east

March 7, 2024

An unknown number of people, mainly girls and women, have been abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Feb 6 in the Nigerian north eastern ... Read More

Burkina and Cameroon: millions displaced, trapped by food insecurity

June 6, 2023

Burkina Faso has one of the fastest-growing internally displaced populations in the world, now totaling more than 2 million people, while at least three million ... Read More

Chad’s leader elected new Chair of Lake Chad Basin Commission

November 30, 2022

The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) elected Tuesday Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, the President of the Transition Military Council of Chad, as its new Chairman ... 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

Macron in Cameroon slams ‘hypocrisy’ on African nations

July 27, 2022

Global food crisis is one of Russia's "weapons of war“, said French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Cameroon on Tuesday (26 July), dismissing ... Read More

Tunisia arrests Boko Haram alleged affiliates

December 30, 2021

Tunisia recently arrested a number of alleged militants of the Nigeria-based terror group Boko Haram, the leader of security union in the coastal city of ... Read More

Niger: About 75 Boko Haram terrorists killed – Defense Ministry

May 13, 2020

The Sahel state of Niger, which has been battling a bloody jihadist insurgency, said Wednesday around 75 Boko Haram combatants had been killed in the ... Read More