NIAMEY, April 26 (Reuters) - Niger's army is fighting to recapture an island in Lake Chad after it was seized by hundreds of Boko Haram militants aboard motorised canoes, army sources said on Sunday. Boko Haram, hardline Islamists who want to establish a caliphate in the region, attacked the isla...

Hundreds of people have been found dead in the north-east Nigerian town of Damasak, apparently victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, as details emerged on Monday of fresh attacks by the militants. Reports of decomposing bodies littering the streets of Damasak came as the president elect, Muhammad...

The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active. However, it said the girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them. The military said the girls and women were freed during major ope...

Boko Haram militants attacked troops from Niger on an island base in Lake Chad, the government said Saturday, in a raid believed to have taken a heavy toll on the army. "At dawn on April 25, fighters from the terrorist group Boko Haram riding motorised canoes attacked the island of Karamga, a pos...

Some of the nearly 300 girls and women freed by Nigeria’s military from the forest stronghold of Boko Haram were so transformed by their captivity that they opened fire on their rescuers, and experts said on Wednesday they would need intensive psychological treatment. The military was flying in m...

Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives have revealed. Hundreds of women and children were rescued by the Nigerian army last week from Islamist fighters in north...

Malgré l’annonce d’un accord de paix, la guerre entre les indépendantistes touaregs et l’armée malienne a repris. Plusieurs attaques ont eu lieu la semaine dernière, les plus meurtrières depuis bien longtemps. ”Nouvelle guerre ?” s’interrogeait déjà, le 30 avril, l’éditorialiste du quotidien Le R...

NIAMEY - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed in-kind and cash donations from USAID’s Food for Peace Program totalling US$40 million to support WFP’s assistance to very poor households and build community resilience to withstand recurrent shocks especially drought. “This i...

The Nigerien army wants to expel Boko Haram from islands in Lake Chad. Thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes ahead of a planned offensive. The evacuation was poorly prepared, say human rights activists. Moussa Tchangari is furious as he describes how the evacuation was carried out...

YOLA, NIGERIA— The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern that Niger is forcing Nigerians away from Lake Chad and their livelihoods in the wake of a deadly battle with the Boko Haram extremist group. Thousands of Nigerians who worked in the fishing industry are being forced away from ...