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What to know about joint US-Nigeria operation that killed a senior militant leaderTrump wrote in a social media post that the mission in the early hours of Saturday targeted Abu Bakr al-Mainuki, who was part of the top le...- Nigerian air strike on market kills over 100 peopleA Nigerian Air Force airstrike intended for jihadi rebels mistakenly hit a market in Yobe state. Over 100 residents were killed and many ot...
- Islamist militants kill 14 Nigerian soldiers in Borno state, sources sayIn a shocking turn of events, militants launched a coordinated assault on two Nigerian army bases in Borno state, resulting in the tragic l...
- 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...
- After attack on rival, Islamic State jihadists battle for control in northeast NigeriaIslamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is now targeting Boko Haram's soldiers after raiding Shekau's stronghold in Sambisa forest in Bo...
- 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...
- Gunmen storm Nigerian school, kidnap studentsMilitant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State are active in northern Nigeria, but kidnappings by other armed groups - mo...
- Boko Haram militants kill 92 Chadian soldiers: PresidentThe soldiers were attacked on Monday on the island village of Boma in the swampy Lake Chad zone in the west of the country, where the armie...
- African nations seek India's help in fighting terrorIndia today assured all possible assistance in key areas of oil and gas exploration and health during the meetings External Affairs Ministe...
- 'Boko Haram cluster bombs' may come from Nigerian military: CampaignersThe insurgents, allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, have in recent months increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks.
- Malala Yousafzai criticises world leaders on Boko Haram kidnappingsMalala Yousafzai criticised Nigerian and other world leaders for failing to secure the release of over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram mil...
- 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...
- Over 1 million people internally displaced in Nigeria in 3 months: UNAs many as 92.3 per cent of IDPs live with host families and the rest in camps or "camp-like sites", according to the International Organis...
- UNHCR concerned over refugees' return to violence-hit NigeriaUN expressed concern over the return of hundreds of refugees to Nigeria from Niger, saying authorities in the two countries should stop the...
- Boko Haram attacks force over 11,000 flee Nigeria in 10 daysThe Islamist group attacked the town of Baga on January 3, and razed it and at least 16 surrounding settlements, feared to be the worst mas...
- Missing Nigerian schoolgirls start second month in captivityMore than 200 schoolgirls began their 2nd month as Boko Haram hostages as intl powers ramped up efforts to track down the Nigerian Islamist...
- 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.
- US flying 'manned missions' to seek abducted Nigeria girlsManned US aircraft were flying over Nigeria, searching for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram after Abuja dismissed a prisoner-swa...
- New Boko Haram video claims to show missing Nigerian schoolgirlsA total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, with sizeable Christian community.
- Nigeria enters 2012 under state of emergencyAt least 52 people, including women and children, have been killed in clashes between two rival ethnic communities in southeastern Ebonyi s...
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