A Chadian Public Prosecutor, Alghassim Khamis, said on Tuesday that a leader of the Boko Haram sect, Baana Fanay, who has been coordinating trafficking of weapons in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad was arrested on Sunday in N'Djamena. Khamis said Fanay alias Mahamat Moustapha, was arrested by security...

(Nairobi) – South Sudanese government forces and allied fighters carried out scores of killings, rapes, and widespread burning and pillage of civilian property in a military offensive in Unity State causing forced displacement, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The deliberate attac...

It was 8pm. Silence reigned in our area of Nasr City outside Cairo when a 50-something woman speaking a non-Egyptian dialect broke the silence and knocked on our door. “I need a job,” she said. The fair-skinned, black-clad, heavily wrinkled woman turned out to be a Syrian refugee seeking assistan...

From Fred Itua, Abuja NO fewer than six people, including a member of Civil­ian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and five suicide bombers were killed in a bomb attack on a security outpost manned by vigilante in Borno’s town of Mafa. Sources said some female bombers approached a securi­ty post manned b...

In an exclusive interview, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama spoke to DW about migration, corruption, and the current tension in the Niger Delta. Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama is scheduled to meet with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeyer on Wednesday. Among t...

A car bomb has exploded in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 17 people. The Islamist group Boko Haram said it carried out the attack. A suspect has been arrested, the military says. The bomb went off near a market, sending up a large plume of smoke. People were see...

ONE of the Boko Haram suspects declared wanted by the Nigerian Army was on Wednesday arrested in Sapele, Delta State. The 35-year-old Boko Haram suspect, whose name was given as Bukar Abacha, was arrested by officers of the 19 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Sapele. Nigerian Tribune gathered tha...

A continued strife over control of fertile lands in Nigeria has resulted to the deaths of many farmers and their livestock. Analysts say land disputes pose the greatest security risk after Boko Haram. It was too late for the residents of Ukpabi Nimbo, as the attackers invaded their village. Ac...