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Tag: Boko Haram
Nigeria kidnappings: more students snatched as army hunts for missing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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