Boko Haram
11 Cameroonians killed in Boko Haram attack
Boko Haram fighters torched a village in Cameroon’s troubled Far North Region overnight and killed 11 civilians in their sleep, security sources told AFP yesterday.
Boko Haram suicide attack kills 8 at Nigeria mosque
Eight people are killed at a mosque in northeast Nigeria when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, a civilian militia member and a local resident says.
20 killed in northeast Nigeria mosque blasts
Explosions in and around a mosque in northeast Nigeria killed at least 20 people, police say.
Boko Haram attack kills 18 in Nigeria
Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said yesterday.
Abducted Chibok girls say 'we won't return': Boko Haram video
Islamist militants Boko Haram releases a new video purporting to show at least 14 of the Chibok schoolgirls whose mass kidnapping nearly four years ago became a symbol of Nigeria's brutal conflict.
27 killed in Nigeria suicide bombing
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and killed 27 others at a market in northeast Nigeria, two local officials say, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram militants.
Second Chibok girl found with 97 other hostages
A second Chibok schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been found during military operations in northeast Nigeria, the army says.
First kidnapped Chibok girl 'found in Nigeria'
One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago.
Boko Haram links to IS alarm UN
The UN Security Council has said it is alarmed by ties between Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants and the Islamic State (IS) group.
Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb attack 'kills 20'
20 people die in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i says.
Nigeria's twin blasts kill 44
Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos leave at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.
30 killed in Nigeria by girl suicide bombers
Two girls blew themselves up near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria's biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said.
Boko Haram militants raped hundreds of female captives in Nigeria
Boko Haram militants rape hundreds of women and girls in Nigeria as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants.
Boko Haram freed women tell of captivity horror
Former hostages held by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria say some fellow captives were stoned to death as the army approached to rescue them.
Boko Haram: Nigerian army frees another 234 women and children
Another 234 women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, the military announces.
Nigerian army rescues 300 women
The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active.
Nigeria's Chibok girls 'seen with Boko Haram in Gwoza'
More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman tells the BBC.
Boko Haram takes 500 children
About 500 children aged 11 and under are missing from the Nigerian town, Damasak which has been recaptured from Islamist militants
Boko Haram crisis: 70 bodies found in Nigeria
At least 70 bodies are found dumped outside the town of Damasak in north-eastern Nigeria, after it was recaptured from Boko Haram militants