Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters)—West African leaders will seek authority next week from the African Union to create a multi-national force...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa’s most populous nation as...
By Stephen A. Crockett, Jr., The Root Last week Boko Haram entered the northern Nigerian town of Baga and began opening fire on residents. According to...
(PBS) – GWEN IFILL: Even as the world’s attention has been focused on missing planes in the Java Sea and terror attacks in Paris, another disaster...
(PBS) – GWEN IFILL: Even as the world’s attention has been focused on missing planes in the Java Sea and terror attacks in Paris, another disaster...
Faith Karimi and Amina Abubakar, CNN KANO, Nigeria (CNN)—The attackers sped into a Nigerian town with grenade launchers — their gunfire and explosions shattering the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC)—At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC)—At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press SUNDAY ALAMBA, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan launched his bid for re-election Thursday at a time when...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC. Boko Haram...
BASHIR ADIGUN, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s chief of defense staff acknowledged Tuesday that the headquarters of a multinational military force on Nigeria’s border...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday. Baga is...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from a remote village in northeast Nigeria in a raid that residents and a security source...
Julia Payne, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters)—Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said they were appealing directly to the United Nations for...
From Oakland to the White House, to cities around the world, millions of people are picking up the cries of Nigerian mothers: “Bring Back Our Girls.”