Nigerian military helicopters have rushed polio vaccines to dangerous parts of the country's north east, where Boko Haram operates and where two toddlers paralysed...
The multinational forces fighting Boko Haram have arrested five leaders of the extremist group and freed dozens of women and children held captive, Cameroon's...
Two female suicide bombers have killed at least 22 worshippers in an attack on a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, rescue officials have said.
Abdul Mohammed,...
Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up in a Nigerian refugee camp, killing at least 56 people, officials said.
A further 78 people were...
Boko Haram extremists have fire-bombed huts, burning people including children to death, in the latest attack by the Nigerian group, according to a survivor.
Scores...
Five female suicide bombers targeted the Chibok home town of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls, killing nine civilians and wounding 32, witnesses said.
Soldiers are searching the...
30 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses...
Attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening...
Troops have freed 900 hostages held by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, killed more than 100 fighters and arrested 100 others, Cameroon’s government said.
Issa Tchiroma...