Two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a town in north Cameroon, killing at least five people and injuring 12 others.
Colonel Jacob Kodji,...
Nigerian troops have driven Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned north-eastern primary school in a shootout that killed four militants.
Insurgents were using the...
Extremists detonated three explosive devices in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, in Nigeria’s north-east.
Details on casualties were not readily available, said military spokesman...
Nigeria’s army said it had rescued at least a dozen kidnapped women and children held captive by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
Military spokesman...
Cameroon has expelled more than 3,000 Nigerians as part of the fight against Nigeria’s Islamic extremists who have launched attacks across borders, officials said.
Authorities...
Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east,...