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  • Boko Haram releases 21 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok

    news Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, 14 Oct 2016 (7 years ago )
    Officials in Nigeria have confirmed that 21 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria two years ago have been released. High Representative Vice- President Federica Mogherini, Commissioner for International Cooperation & Development Neven Mimica and Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Man...
  • Boko Haram releases new video denying surrender

    news AFP, 01 Apr 2016 (7 years ago )
    Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Friday 4/1/2016 - 19:38 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR Boko Haram released a new video Friday denying any suggestion it might surrender, just over a week after shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a rare message looking dejected and frail. Shekau, unseen on camera for mor...
  • Boko Haram remains a potent threat: paper

    news WAM, 02 Feb 2016 (8 years ago )
    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...
  • Boko Haram reported to have set up a radio station in the North of Cameroon on 98.6 FM (Voice of America Hausa service)
    highlight 16 Jun 2016 (7 years ago)
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  • Boko Haram retakes Niger town of Bosso - mayor

    news Reuters Africa, 06 Jun 2016 (7 years ago )
    NIAMEY, June 6 (Reuters) - Boko Haram retook the town of Bosso in southeastern Niger overnight after clashes with soldiers from Niger and Nigeria, the mayor of Bosso and a military source said on Monday. The Islamist group first took the town near the Nigerian border on Friday in an attack in whi...
  • Boko Haram retook the town of Bosso in southeastern Niger overnight, after having lost it again after a first attack on Friday, killing 30 soldiers (Reuters)
    highlight 06 Jun 2016 (7 years ago)
    Cameroon Mali / Mali - Refugee Returnees Mauritania / Mali - Refugees Burkina Faso / Mali - Refugees Niger / Mali - Refugees / Burkina Faso - Refugees / Mali - IDPs / Mali - Refugee Returnees / Niger - Refugees / Mauritania - Refugees
  • Boko Haram risks spreading in region, Guinea leader says

    news AFP, 22 Dec 2014 (9 years ago )
    PARIS – Guinea’s president warned Sunday that Islamic extremism risked spreading throughout West Africa and called on countries in the region to do more to help Nigeria in its struggle against Boko Haram. Alpha Conde’s comments came after the radical group kidnapped 185 people in northeast Nigeria ...
  • Boko Haram says ‘No surrender’ in new video

    news News 24, 01 Apr 2016 (7 years ago )
    Abuja - Boko Haram released a new video Friday denying any suggestions it would surrender, just over a week after their shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a rare message looking dejected and frail. Shekau, who was not seen on camera for more than a year, released an unverified video late...
  • Boko Haram sets up Radio station-VOA

    news Daily Trust, 15 Jun 2016 (7 years ago )
    Terrorist group, Boko Haram, has set up an FM station broadcasting on 96.8 frequency, the Hausa service of Voice of America has said. According to the report, villagers living in the village of Tolkomari in the far north state of Cameroon said they tune to the station which spread Boko Haram's pr...
  • Boko Haram still a threat to refugees in Cameroon

    news IRIN, 12 Jan 2017 (7 years ago )
    The Minawao refugee camp in the Far North Region, the poorest and least-developed province in Cameroon, is an inhospitable home for some 60,000 refugees of Nigeria’s Boko Haram conflict. A further 27,000 live precariously, often among struggling relatives and friends, closer to the insecure border. ...