Le chef de la diplomatie algérienne, qui chapeaute la médiation internationale sur la crise au Mali, s’est montré mercredi relativement optimiste quant à la possibilité d’aboutir à un accord de paix lors des prochaines négociations inter-maliennes. Alger, qui accueillera à partir de la semaine p...

NIAMEY/N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Two female suicide bombers attacked the Niger frontier town of Diffa on Wednesday, security sources said, shortly after Chad's army said it had killed 13 fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Gambaru. The violence on Nigeria's bo...

Chijioke Kingsley, Jos At least four persons were feared killed and 10 houses burnt as a result of a clash between Christians and Muslims in Babale village of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. The peace, hitherto enjoyed in the area, despite series of crisis that engulfed Jos,...

Mohammed Ismail 800 children affected by Boko Haram insurgency in the northern parts of Adamawa State are currently undergoing psycho therapy as part of measures towards their rehabilitation, executive chairman Adamawa State Universal Basic Education (ADSUBEB), Bello Dauda Furo has said. Furo ...

Michael Olugbode A bomb attack on Biu main market has claimed five lives and injured 10 others, eyewitnesses have said. One of the eyewitnesses, Yusuf Gunda, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, which is in the southern part of Borno state, told our correspondent on phone that a ...

Nigeria held meetings with the United Nations (UN), Chad, Cameroon, Egypt and Niger at the just-concluded AU summit in Addis Ababa on how to effectively combat Boko Haram insurgency, an official said. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, made the fact known in a statement in Abuja, on Thu...

RFI/OR Il y a une semaine jour pour jour, Boko Haram lançait une attaque répressive sur la ville de Fotokol dans l’extrême nord du Cameroun. Cette attaque faisait suite à une offensive camerouno-tchadienne contre Boko Haram. Les assaillants sont venus de nuit à 5 heures du matin et ont tué 81 civil...

RFI/OR Sur la ligne de front, le long de la frontière nigériane, dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord, presque chaque jour l’armée camerounaise est harcelée par les combattants de Boko Haram. Depuis neuf mois, les attaques sont de plus en plus fréquentes et de plus en plus violentes. Les jihadistes con...

REUTERS/Stringer Au Nigeria, les membres du groupe armé islamiste Boko Haram ont attaqué ce mercredi matin une position de l’armée tchadienne. Les militaires sont parvenus à repousser cet assaut de la ville de Gambaru. Une attaque qui a fait un mort du côté des forces tchadiennes. Les insurgés, ...

DAKAR, 11 February 2015 (IRIN) - Many fled the killings by canoe and had no time to take anything with them as they paddled for their lives across Lake Chad. Now thousands of Nigerians who escaped attacks by Boko Haram are stuck on some of the countless little islands that dot the lake and are in di...