National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has discovered 22 Boko Haram members among Nigerians deported from Cameroun. The returnees were settled at the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Mubi, Adamawa, State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Director General of NEMA, Mr, M...

Suspected Boko Haram members have ambushed a convoy carrying the new head of the Nigerian army, sparking clashes in which 10 fighters and a soldier were killed, the military has said. Tukur Buratai, who was last month appointed chief of army staff, was unharmed in the attack, which occured as he ...

Après la signature, le 15 juin 2015, de l’accord de paix et de réconciliation d’Alger par la rébellion de la Coordination des mouvements de l’Azawad (CMA), le monde s’est divisé en deux camps : ceux qui ont estimé que le processus de paix était enfin solidement sur les rails et ceux qui disent « ça ...

Boko Haram is trying to expand its activities beyond Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, to include the commercial capital Lagos, as well as other parts of the country, officials say. Nigeria's intelligence agency says 12 members of the Islamist militant group have been arrested in Lagos since July. It...

Chad executed 10 alleged members of Nigeria-based Islamist group, Boko Haram, by firing squad Saturday, a day after they were found guilty of a double suicide killing that left 38 people dead in the capital N'Djamena. "They were executed this morning on a shooting ground north of N'Djamena," a ju...

Marches and a candlelight vigil have been held to mark 500 days since the girls were abducted from Chibok. More than 200 youngsters are missing, amid fears they've been married off and sold into prostitution. Bring Back Our Girls march in Chibok Relatives of the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls...

Nigeria has uncovered a spy cell run by militant Islamist group Boko Haram at the international airport in the capital Abuja apparently aimed at selecting targets for attack, the country's national security agency said. In a statement late on Friday, the Department of State Services (DSS) said it...

Le Gatia (groupe d'autodéfense des touareg de la tribu des Imerades et ses alliés) serait toujours présent dans la localité de Anéfis (nord-est), prise le mois dernier aux rebelles, selon une source sécuritaire de la mission de l'ONU au Mali (Minusma). Mais après des pressions, les choses bougent, m...

ABUJA/DAKAR, 11 September 2015 (IRIN) - Families driven out of villages, farmers unable to tend crops, food stocks of entire communities raided: Boko Haram’s impact on the people of Western and Central Africa lingers long after the rape and slaughter. More than 5.5 million people living in conflict...

By Daji Sani in Yola and Senator Iroegbu in Abuja In an effort to prevent a re-occurrence of a bomb blast in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Adamawa State, the Police Commissioner, Gabriel Adaji has ordered security beef-up and total re-screening of the IDPs before they are re-a...