Environ 1.200 personnes ont été tuées dans les attaques et attentats perpétrés par les islamistes nigérians de Boko Haram dans la région de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun depuis 2013, a annoncé vendredi le porte-parole du gouvernement camerounais et ministre de la Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary. ...

Jason Motlagh Maryam was strolling to her family’s farm in the rocky hills behind the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza when two Boko Haram fighters blocked her path. The insurgents had overrun the area several months before, ransacking food stores and conscripting young men at gunpoint into ra...

Le Cameroun vient d'enregistrer son plus lourd bilan depuis le début de l'année face aux attaques terroristes attribuées à Boko Haram. L'attentat de mercredi matin qui a fait 13 morts et de nombreux blessés dans une mosquée de Kolofata dans l'Extrême Nord, marque encore les esprits dans le pays,...

(Corrects attribution in 12th graf) By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY Jan 13 (Reuters) - Four people arrested for ties to an attempted coup in Niger in December have confessed to the plot and asked for clemency, the defence minister said on Wednesday. At least 13 people, including a civilian, h...

Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 1/13/2016 - 20:42 GMT One person has died from Lassa Fever in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, taking deaths from the virus countrywide to 43, the health minister said on Wednesday. The victim, the first to succumb to the virus in the capital, died in the National Hos...

GENEVA (13 January 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts will visit Nigeria from 18 to 22 January 2016 to examine the measures to assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of the women and children who escaped or were liberated from Boko Haram captivity. “All measures taken or in...

Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Friday 1/15/2016 - 14:53 GMT by Stephanie FINDLAY At least 44 people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria with the death toll expected to rise, underscoring the difficulty in combating deadly viruses in a region still reeling from Ebola. While health authorities assu...

Burkina Faso and Mali have agreed to work together to counter the growing threat of Islamic militants in West Africa by sharing intelligence and conducting joint security patrols following two deadly and well-coordinated attacks in the region. Their prime ministers met on Sunday, two days after a...

Some 170 villages have been left empty in the Diffa region UNHCR and its partners are struggling to help an estimated 100,000 people newly displaced in recent weeks in south-east Niger’s Diffa region in attacks launched by Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency group. Our team in Niger says the situatio...

Quatre fidèles musulmans ont été tués lundi matin au Cameroun dans un attentat-suicide contre une mosquée de la région de l'Extrême-Nord. Cette attaque survient cinq jours après une attaque similaire qui avait fait 12 morts dans une autre mosquée. L'attentat a visé une petite mosquée du villag...