A Nigerian lawmaker says at least 1,000 people have been killed in the latest series of assaults by the militant group Boko Haram. Senator Maina Maaji Lawan told VOA that Boko Haram "went wild" Wednesday, burning homes in the northeastern town of Baga and surrounding villages. Lawan, whose d...

In western Chad, some 7,300 Nigerian refugees have arrived in the past 10 days, fleeing attacks by insurgents on Baga town and surrounding villages in northeast Nigeria. UNHCR teams in Chad are at the border and seeking more information on the new arrivals and their needs. The attack on Baga left hu...

L'Accord offrira un cadre juridique pour accompagner le rapatriement volontaire organisé des réfugiés maliens vivant au Burkina Faso et leur réintégration au Mali OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO, 9 janvier 2014 (UNHCR) – Une délégation du gouvernement du Mali conduite par M. Hamadoun KONATE, Ministre d...

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has appealed for international military help to fight Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which this week threatened to step up its cross-border raids into the country from Nigeria. The Nigerian group is part of a "global" movement that has attacked Mali, the Centra...

YOLA, Nigeria — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the government spokesman on the insurgency, said fightin...

By ADAM NOSSITER DAKAR, Senegal — Refugees in northeast Nigeria fleeing an attack by the Islamist group Boko Haram have spoken of dozens of civilian deaths and scores of houses destroyed in an already hard-hit fishing village near Lake Chad. Local officials and witnesses who have fled to the r...

A second bloody attack in the northeastern town of Baga coincides with the launch of Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential campaign. What that means for the election season. As thousands of supporters clad in the red, white and green of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party ...

The Boko Haram insurgents have captured all local government councils in Borno north, according to Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Abuja yesterday. The report indicates that the local councils are now under the sect’s control. Boko Haram militants storm...

The Nigerian government said on Thursday that troops were working hard to free Baga and other towns captured by the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. Mike Omeri, the Coordinator, National Information Centre, stated this while giving newsmen an update on ongoing troops operation in the North E...

Boko Haram militants have killed hundreds of people in a dozen settlements around the town of Baga. Buildings were looted and then set on fire as hundreds of residents fled into the surrounding countryside. The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram carried out attacks on the settlements, a governme...