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 'takes town' from Boko Haram
Nigeria's military retakes north-eastern town of Bama from Islamist military group Boko Haram
IS 'accepts' Boko Haram's allegiance
Islamic State (IS) accepts pledge of allegiance from Nigeria's militant group Boko Haram, according to an audio message
Boko Haram pledge to Islamic State
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State (IS) via Twitter post
'Dozens killed' in Nigeria attacks
Dozens of people are reported to have died in Nigeria in three separate attacks in the key north-eastern city of Maiduguri.
Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose veto on genocide votes
Amnesty International urges the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities