While the number of refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan continues to make world headlines, there is another conflict that rages on that has received little attention from the media. A worsening campaign of attacks by militants in northeast Nigeria is deepening a humanitarian crisis for tens of millions of[…]
Relatives of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram mark 500 days since the abductions with hope dwindling for their rescue despite a renewed push to end the armed group’s rebellion. The landmark on Thursday comes amid a security crisis in northeastern Nigeria, where fighters have killed more than[…]
A blast in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State has killed at least 47 people and injured another 52, according to a military source and a civilian joint task force member. The explosion, in a region where hundreds of people have been killed in attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram in[…]
At least 19 people have been killed and 47 others injured when explosives carried by a girl, aged about 10, detonated in a crowded market in the Nigerian city of Damaturu, police have said. No one claimed responsibility for Sunday’s explosion but the latest attack bears the hallmarks of the[…]
Boko Haram fighters have gunned down at least 80 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeastern Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a member of a local vigilante group said. Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja on Thursday, said the victims, mostly men, were killed in the[…]
young female suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and injured more than 20 in an attack on Tuesday in a market in northeast Nigeria, several witnesses said, the second such attack within 24 hours. The attack bore the hallmarks of radical group Boko Haram, which is stepping up suicide[…]
Civilian self defence fighters say a sack of home-made bombs found at an abandoned Boko Haram camp exploded, killing 63 people in a town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state. Witness Haruna Bukar said the civilians were patrolling when they came across the bag of metallic objects and carried them to[…]
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 37 people in raids on five villages around Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a military source and a local village defense group said on Friday. The radicals, who arrived on motorcycles and in four-wheel drive vehicles, fired into houses and shot fleeing[…]
Human Rights group Amnesty International has released a damning report highlighting immense levels of human rights abuse on the part of the Nigerian military, allegedly committed during its resistance against a six-year long Boko Haram insurgency. The report sheds light on more than 8000 civilian causalities attributed to the country’s[…]
Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari is preparing to formally take over as Nigeria’s elected head of state following his election victory in March 28 elections. Buhari will attend a swearing-in ceremony in Abuja, the capital, on Friday after becoming the first Nigerian to oust a sitting president through the ballot box.[…]
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