Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, has said the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from the remote town of Chibok in Nigeria’s northeast in April have converted to Islam and been married off. Shekau made the remarks in a video obtained by the AFP news agency on Friday. “Don’t you know the over[…]
Dozens of girls and young women are being abducted by rebels in northeast Nigeria, raising doubts about an announced cease-fire and the hoped-for release of 219 schoolgirls held captive since April. Thirty teenage girls and boys have been kidnapped since Wednesday from villages around Mafa town, 40 kilometers (25 miles)[…]
Days after Nigeria’s military raised hopes with the announcement that Islamic extremists had agreed to a cease-fire, Boko Haram is still fighting and there is no word on the fate of the 219 schoolgirls held hostage for six months. Officials had said talks would resume in neighboring Chad this week, but[…]
Nigeria’s announcement of a ceasefire with Boko Haram has surprised many and convinced few, particularly when talks with the rebels on the possible release of 219 kidnapped schoolgirls had been at a frustrating standstill. The rebels have had the upper hand in fighting in the far northeast in recent months,[…]
Nigeria claimed to have reached a deal with the Boko Haram rebel group on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough. Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh on Friday told senior military officials from Nigeria and Cameroon[…]
A Nigerian military claim that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead was dismissed as propaganda on Thursday by analysts, who said that even if true it was unlikely to undermine the rebels. The defence ministry said on Wednesday that Shekau was dead and that one Bashir Mohammed, killed during[…]
Hundreds of members of the group Boko Haram have surrendered, a Nigerian military spokesman said Wednesday in Abuja. The captures came after clashes with Boko Haram in northern Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, Major General Chris Olukolade said. He said that military forces had killed a reported lookalike for Boko Haram[…]
Boko Haram insurgents have been blamed after at least 13 people died during a shoot-out between police and suspected suicide bombers at a teacher training college in northern Nigeria on Wednesday. Kano State police commissioner Adelere Shinaba said the “insurgents”, ran into the Federal College of Education after exchanging fire with[…]
The leader of Boko Haram has claimed that the Nigerian armed group has created an “Islamic caliphate” in a northeastern town, a claim quickly rejected by the military. “Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in [the town of] Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic[…]
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said. Several witnesses who arrived as refugees in the city of Maiduguri told Reuters news agency[…]
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