Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Monday 2/1/2016 - 15:04 GMT At least 85 people were killed in a weekend attack by Boko Haram insurgents in a village near the restive north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a state commissioner said on Monday. Borno State health commissioner Haruna Mshelia said 75 bo...

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Several people were killed in a twin bomb blast that rocked the Gombi Grain Market in Adamawa State on Friday. An eyewitness who spoke to our correspondent said that the blast occurred around 2pm when the market was filled to the brim. It was stated that several peopl...

The Nigerian leader clearly overstated his ability to stop the Islamists, reports Alistair Dawber The attack in the village of Dalori began when three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in the name of Boko Haram. Four hours later, after the jihadists had firebombed houses ...

In northeastern Nigeria witnesses say they saw Boko Haram militants firebombing huts and heard screams of children burning to death. This was during the weekend attack in the village of Dalori that left at least 85 dead. The weekend attack in which militants torched huts came after attacks in ...

Oriflammes, fanions aux couleurs des partis et photos des candidats ont fait leur apparition au Niger, où la campagne électorale en vue du premier tour de la présidentielle du 21 février s'est ouverte samedi, sans Hama Amadou, un des favoris, incarcéré depuis plus de deux mois. Les candidats ont ...

Le nombre de touristes européens est passé de 71 371 en 2014 à 35 700 en 2015, sous le coup des attaques du Radisson Blu de Bamako en novembre et d'un hôtel de Sévaré, au centre du pays, au mois d'août. Le chiffre était déjà tombé de 160 000 à 142 000 entre 2011 et 2013. Dégringolade du nombre de...

Senegalese President Macky Sall has urged West African countries to reinforce intelligence sharing mechanisms and harmonize the war against terrorism in the region. Speaking to Xinhua in an interview during the recently concluded African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Sall revealed that a regional ...

ABU DHABI, 2nd February, 2016 (WAM) -- A UAE newspaper has said that the shocking news from northern Nigeria that Boko Haram extremists have burnt scores of children to death among 86 people killed just outside Maiduguri, the largest city in the north east, bears the terrible trade mark of Daesh, wh...

Au moins 85 personnes ont été tuées dans l’attaque qui a frappé samedi 30 janvier une localité proche de Maiduguri, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, selon le dernier bilan des autorités. Les assaillants, des militants présumés du groupe islamiste Boko Haram, ont tiré sur la population de Dalori avant de...

ADDIS ABABA Feb 2 (Reuters) - Funding for a multinational force to combat Boko Haram's deadly Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa remains well short of its target, an African Union official said on Tuesday. So far donors, including Nigeria, Switzerland and France, have pledged about $2...