By thewillnigeria.com Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said. The group, which has killed thousands an...

The United Nations Security Council says it is deeply concerned that increased attacks by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram are threatening the peace and stability of Central and West Africa. In a statement Monday, the Council urged countries in the region to step up plans for a regional mili...

BAMAKO— The U.N. mission in Mali said on Monday it was holding emergency talks between armed groups who have fought gunbattles in a town in northern Mali. Tuareg MNLA separatists attempted to take Tabankort as fighters from the Arab Azawad Movement pushed them back during clashes over the weeken...

At least 20 of up to 80 people taken hostage by Boko Haram militants in Cameroon at the weekend are reported to be free. Cameroon’s defence ministry said the hostages were freed “as defence forces pursued the attackers who were heading back to Nigeria”. Many of those kidnapped in the cross-bor...

Suspected militants from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have kidnapped dozens of people in raids in neighbouring Cameroon, officials say. They said many of those kidnapped in the cross border attack against villages were children. Four villagers who tried to fend off the attackers were kil...

By Paul Obi in Abuja The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy to Nigeria, Leila Zerrougui, on Saturday said children in the north-eastern part of Nigeria are in desperate need of protection from acts of terrorism and violence perpetuated by Boko Haram insurgents. Zerrougui, a special envoy repres...

N'Djamena (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people joined a march in N'Djamena on Saturday in support of Chadian troops heading to Nigeria and Cameroon to fight the Islamist group Boko Haram. Marching some five kilometres (three miles) through Chad's capital, demonstrators waved the national flag and ...

Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE— Cameroon announced Chad has agreed to send weapons and soldiers to help in the fight against the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. Chad’s offer comes after Cameroon President Paul Biya called for international help to combat the Islamist militant group. Cameroon...

UNHCR is very concerned about the return to Nigeria from Niger on 14 January of hundreds of refugees in a joint operation organized by the Governor of Borno State in Nigeria and the authorities in Niger. According to information received by UNHCR, the refugees were transported in 9 buses to Maidugur...

3,200 persons who were displaced from the community as a result of insurgency were being camped in a secure facility, the Teacher’s Village Camp in Maiduguri. NEMA and its partners, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), would provide critical aid to the people of the area on...