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Nigeria arrests Pakistani terror operatives abetting Boko Haram groupNigeria has apprehended four Pakistani nationals accused of training and arming Boko Haram terrorists. The presence of foreign mercenaries ...
Info gathering, supplies, attacks: women's roles in Jihadist groupsRussian mercenaries from the Wagner group launched a raid in Mali's Wela village targeting a woman suspected of aiding jihadists. Women in ...
27 Nigerian soldiers killed in jihadist suicide attack: ArmyAt least 27 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist suicide attack by Islamic State-affiliated militants in the northeast. The attack o...
Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria350 hostages, including 209 children and 135 women, rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Sambisa Forest, highlighting the ongoing threat t...
UN investigator: Contemporary slavery extensive and in ChinaHuman Rights Council Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokat adds that traditional enslavement, especially of minorities, is found in Mauritania, ...
Nigeria receives six warplanes from United States to fight insurgency"The first batch of A-29 Super Tucano aircraft have arrived in Kano today," Nigeria Airforce spokesman Edward Gabkwet said in a statement l...
Going home or staying safe in NE Nigeria, an impossible choiceDespite security measures, insurgents have launched repeated assaults on a dozen fortified towns where people had returned. "They're forcin...
Nexus of traffickers, terror networks dangerous: India in UNIndia also voiced concern that situations of armed conflict provide fertile ground for trafficking in persons especially from the vulnerabl...
'India, 3 others witnessed 50% of all terror attacks in 2015'The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2016 published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) found that 29,376 people died from terrorism...
India among 10 nations impacted by terrorism in 2014: ReportAccording to the third edition of the Global Terrorism Index 2015 (GTI), India ranked 6th out of 162 nations most affected by terrorism in ...
India calls for global action against sexual violence in conflictDespite the increased focus on the Women Peace and Security agenda, women and girls continue to be major victims despite being non-combatan...
Guyana's PM Moses Nagamootoo urges judiciary to keep track of "changing profile of the worldHe made the remarks during an event here in the run up to five-day International Conference of Chief Justices of the world beginning tomorr...
One of the most notoriously violent jihadists on earth may now be out of a jobAbubakr Shekau, leader of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, had been deposed and replaced by a new leader more open to compromise .
Barack Obama welcomes Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari to White HouseObama's administration has faced criticism for not including the continent's most populous country on an Africa tour later this week.
Boko Haram may have committed war crimes: UN rights chiefThe group has also repeatedly used young children as human bombs, including a case of a 14-year-old carrying a baby on her back who detonat...
Nigeria 'willing to talk' to Boko Haram over missing girlsBoko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state on April 14 and 223 are still being held.
- Nigeria enters 2012 under state of emergency
At least 52 people, including women and children, have been killed in clashes between two rival ethnic communities in southeastern Ebonyi s...