The South African government on Friday joined the international community in condemning the deadly attacks carried out by Boko Haram on 16 villages in Nigeria. The department of international relations said the attacks on innocent civilians were a contravention of international human rights and a crime against humanity. “In this[…]
A 13-year-old girl has accused her father of giving her to Nigeria’s Boko Haram group that ordered her to explode a suicide bomb in Kano city. The girl said she and two other females were sent to carry out an attack on a textile market but after the other detonated[…]
Two explosions in two northeast Nigerian states on Monday killed at least 26 people and injured 79, rescue and health officials said. A car bomb at a bus station in Gombe city killed at least 20 people and injured 60, according to Red Cross official Abubakar Yakubu. Those killed were “burned[…]
Boko Haram radicals killed 32 people and kidnapped scores of others, including women and children, in a brutal attack on a village in the northeast, officials and a witness said Thursday. In neighbouring Cameroon, the Islamic extremists launched a raid on army base in the border town of Amchide, but[…]
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday stormed two towns in northeast Nigeria, raiding banks and burning government buildings as well as political party offices, residents told AFP. Scores of gunmen dressed in military uniform arrived in Bajoga, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Gombe city in a convoy of 20 vehicles[…]
Scores of people have reportedly been killed after suspected Boko Haram fighters, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a town in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state. Reuters quoted residents as saying that scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani after nightfall on Saturday, but a police[…]
PRESS RELEASE- The Muslim Judicial Council condemns the horrific, brutal and ruthless attack by Boko Haram which resulted in the death of more than 120 worshippers and the wounding of 270 at the Grand Mosque in Kano, Nigeria during the sacred Friday prayers. The ongoing clandestine and murderous actions of[…]
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen disguised as traders opened fire Monday at a crowded market in a northeast Nigeria border town, a military officer and a local official said. It was not yet possible to give a death toll, the senior officer with direct knowledge of the raid told AFP. The[…]
Nigerian radical group Boko Haram are intensifying attacks in neighbouring Cameroon, targeting new villages with increasingly sophisticated weapons, as the army fears more violence in the approaching dry season. “We’re convinced that the establishment of a ‘caliphate’ (by Boko Haram) is aimed not only at Nigeria but also at Cameroon,”[…]
A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber disguised in school uniform killed 47 students in northeast Nigeria Monday, prompting US and UN condemnation of one of the worst attacks against schools with a so-called Western curriculum. The explosion ripped through an all-boys school in Potiskum just as students gathered for morning[…]
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