N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Soldiers from Chad killed 207 Boko Haram militants in fighting on Tuesday near a Nigerian town close to the border with Cameroon, Chad's army announced in a statement. One Chadian soldier was killed and another nine were wounded in the clashes near Garambu, the scene of regu...

La fondation japonaise Niwano pour la paix a indiqué mardi avoir décerné son prix annuel à Esther Abimiku Ibanga, une militante et religieuse nigériane qui fait campagne contre le groupe islamiste Boko Haram. Cette récompense (une somme de 20 millions de yens, près de 150.000 euros) salue l'actio...

"Saa", 18 ans, faisait partie des 270 lycéennes qui ont été enlevées le 14 avril dans leur école de Chibok, dans le nord-est du Nigeria. Réfugiée depuis aux États-Unis, elle raconte à France 24 comment elle s’est échappée...

Ten months after fleeing Boko Haram, who seized her along with 275 other schoolgirls in an attack on a Chibok school, an 18-year-old Nigerian girl recounted her escape to FRANCE 24...

A Alger, on entre dans la dernière ligne droite pour la recherche d'un accord de paix au Mali. La médiation algérienne a rédigé un dernier et ultime texte d'accord de paix. Les deux parties - groupes armés du Nord et autorités de Bamako - remettront leurs observations au médiateur ce vendredi 27 fév...

Suicide bombings at bus stations in two major commercial centres in northern Nigeria have killed at least 27 people, police and hospital sources say. A bomber first struck in Potiskum, and hours later a second attack took place in Kano, the main northern city. Hospital sources said 17 people w...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Thousands of Cameroonian youths marched through the capital Saturday to show support for the military’s battle against attacks by neighboring Nigeria’s Islamic extremists...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, has appealed to Federal Government to immediately set up machinery to protect all children living the North East Nigeria.

Chadian forces, who have joined their Nigerian counterparts in the fight against terrorist group, Boko Haram, have taken Dikwa town in Borno State, held earlier by the insurgents, Nigerian military insiders have told PREMIUM TIMES.

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Monday, said its onslaught against Boko Haram insurgents in the country's North East continued, leading to the reclaiming of more communities that were hitherto seized by the sect.In a simple tweet earlier on Monday, the DHQ said "troops are dominating operations i...