Au Tchad, l'inquiétude grandit chez les familles des membres des forces de sécurité dont on est sans nouvelle depuis l'élection présidentielle. L'opposition parle d'une soixantaine de personnes qui manquent à l'appel, avec un point commun : ils n'auraient pas voté pour le président sortant Idriss Dé...

INTERNALLY Displaced Persons (IDPs) in parts of Borno State consume about 1,800 bags of 50 kilogrammes of rice daily, Governor Kashim Shettima said yesterday in Abuja. He was delivering an address at the first annual Dialogue on Rebuilding Peace in Borno State, organised by an advocacy group, AOA...

Pour remplir les réservoirs de leurs motos, les islamistes de Boko Haram sont contraints de fabriquer leur propre carburant de fortune, les opérations de l'armée ayant coupé leurs lignes de ravitaillement. Selon un haut responsable militaire, les islamistes payaient à prix d'or leurs bidons d'ess...

The Nigerian army, backed by the country's air force, on Monday repelled an attack an attack by Boko Haram fighters near the border with Niger in the jihadists' northeast heartland, the military said. The group allied to Islamic State had been fighting for at least seven years to carve out an Isl...

The Plateau Government has closed down 62 poultry farms and destroyed more than 190,000 birds affected by bird flu across the state, an official has confirmed. Dr Doris Bitrus, Director, Veterinary Services, in the state’s Ministry of Agriculture, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday...

Three years after the French intervention in northern Mali, thousands of refugees in neighboring Burkina Faso are still afraid to go home. Mali’s conflict may be over, but its border areas remain deeply unstable, with jihadist militant groups still believed to be operating. They fled in 2013. Tho...

DAKAR, Senegal — The military campaign by Nigeria and neighbouring nations to combat the West African militant group, Boko Haram, has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence, sometimes even within their own security services, American and other Western official...

En janvier 2015, Boko Haram avait dévasté Baga Kawa sur les rives méridionales du lac Tchad. Après l’élection en avril 2015 de Muhammadu Buhari, le gouvernement nigérian sort de son apathie et, en dépit d’un outil militaire encore défaillant, cherche à reconquérir du terrain sur Boko Haram. Les vois...

The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had commenced large scale operations to smoke out Boko Haram terrorists from their Sambisa forest hideout in Borno. Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander Operation Lafiya Dole said this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. “I want to inform you ...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fear of new Boko Haram attacks in the Lake Chad area is discouraging around 100,000 people uprooted by violence from heading home and is hindering aid operations, agencies said on Wednesday, days after Chad extended its state of em...