Ethnic clashes in Nigeria send 20,000 fleeing into Niger

By VOA,

The U.N. refugee agency says an upsurge in violence in northwest Nigeria since April has driven an estimated 20,000 people to seek safety in neighbori...

Babar Baloch , Boko Haram Intensifies Attacks In Nigeria , Niger Delta , The U.N. refugee agency

Kenya, Cameroon militaries fighting terrorism through development

By VOA,

A delegation from the Kenyan military is sharing experience on how the Cameroon military engineering corps has taken over road construction projects i...

fighting terrorism , kenya military

Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger deploy troops after fresh Boko Haram attack

By VOA,

The Multi-National Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission made up of forces from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Niger, has deployed troops af...

Boko Haram

‘We have become social pariahs’: A Chibok mother’s anguish five years on

By CNN,

On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram, the violent extremist group operating in the Lake Chad region, abducted 276 girls from their school dormitory in north-e...

Boko Haram , Chibok , lake chad , Nigeria

Boko Haram militants target civilians in Niger’s Diffa region

By VOA,

The United Nations reports armed men killed dozens of civilians and displaced thousands during increasingly violent and frequent attacks last month in...

Boko Haram

Islamic State says it killed 18 soldiers in West Africa

By VOA,

Jihadist group Islamic State said Thursday that it had killed 13 Nigerian soldiers and five troops from a west African anti-militant force in attacks ...

Islamic state

Thousands of Nigerians Flee Boko Haram Violence, Head to Cameroon

By VOA,

The governor of Cameroon's Far North region is denying a report that tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees who fled Boko Haram-related violence will ...

Boko Haram , Nigeria , refugees

Backing Chad’s deby, French warplanes stop rebel advance from Libya

By VOA,

French warplanes struck a rebel convoy in northern Chad on Sunday, helping local troops repel an incursion across the border from Libya, a sign France...

Chad deby , Warplanes

Thousands of Nigerian refugees flee to Chad for safety

By VOA,

The U.N. refugee agency says thousands of Nigerian refugees are fleeing to Chad to escape a surge of violence in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state....

Chad , Nigerian refugess

UNICEF: Children in conflict face grave rights violations

By VOA,

Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. childr...

Armed men kidnap 15 girls in southeastern Niger: mayor

By Reuters,

Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of Toumour in Niger’...

Niger

Chad appoints new ministers to quell unrest

By VOA,

Chadian strongman Idriss Deby has appointed new defense and security ministers in a cabinet reshuffle following sustained rebel attacks in the north b...

Ahmat Mahamat Bachir , General Daoud Yaya , Idriss Deby , Mahamat Abba Ali Salah , Oumar Yaya Hissein

Nigerian town awaits release of Christian girl held by Boko Haram

By AFP,

Residents of the Nigerian town of Dapchi were hoping Sunday for the release of the last schoolgirl, who is also a Christian, from among a group of mor...

Boko Haram , Dapchi , Ibrahim Idris , Kachalla Bukar , Leah Sharibu , Maiduguri , Nigeria , President Muhammadu Buhari

Boko Haram leader releases video days after Nigeria claims defeat

By AFP,

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video Tuesday pledging to continue attacks days after Nigeria's military repeated that the jihadist group...

Boko Haram , Nigeria , Nigeria's military

700 Abductees of Boko Haram Escape Captivity – Nigerian Military

By VOA,

Nigeria's military says more than 700 people abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have escaped captivity in the northeast of the country...

Escaping the Exorcist: Chad’s ‘snake children’ turn carpenters and musicians

By VOA,

When Koutu Saimon's son, Wheener, was born almost four months premature and "as small as a mouse," friends and relatives in Chad turned to the new mot...

Chad MP Arrested In Foiled Coup , Chad war crimes verdict a milestone on long road to African rights court , chad's mahamat , Chad’s President Idriss Deby

Deadly malnutrition soars among children in Lake Chad amid Boko Haram resurgence

By Reuters,

The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could...

Boko Haram resurgence kills 381 civilians since April: Amnesty

By Reuters,

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has killed 381 civilians in Nigeria and Cameroon since the beginning of April, rights group Amnesty Internation...

Suspected Boko Haram Militants Kill 15 in Cameroon

By VOA,

Suspected Boko Haram militants sprayed a village in remote Cameroon with automatic fire, killing 15 people and kidnapping eight others in an overnight...

Cameroon tortures suspects at base used by U.S., French troops-Amnesty

By Reuters,

Cameroonian forces have been torturing suspects in their campaign against Islamist group Boko Haram, with much of the torture happening at a base that...