Tag: Boko Haram

Endemic kidnappings

The strike on the aircraft reaffirms the calculated malevolence that has driven all or nearly most of these offensives.

July 26, 2021

A note of hope in a desperate tale

The book recounts the unsentimental but devastating story of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. An astonishing act of imaginative empathy on O’Brien’s part, grounded in research trips to Nigeria, and interviews with people involved on the ground... A review.

October 10, 2019

Asia’s homicide rate lowest globally: UN study

Countries such as China, Japan and Korea-all boast less than one homicide per 100,000 people in a year.

July 8, 2019

Five years after Boko Haram kidnap, 112 Chibok girls still missing

Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped five years ago by Boko Haram jihadists in northeastern Nigeria.

April 14, 2019

Macron in Chad to meet soldiers amid extremist threats

Macron also will hold talks with President Idriss Deby on Sunday and meet with a delegation of Chadian women.

December 22, 2018

Nigeria nabs wanted Boko Haram commander

Army spokesman Texas Chukwu said the suspect was nabbed by troops in Banki neighbourhood of the northeastern state of Borno.

August 5, 2018

Kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls released

A group of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram were released and returned to their hometown of Dapchi, the Nigerian government announced on Wednesday. Boko Haram militants abducted 110 girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College in northeast Nigeria in late February. It was not clear how many of the...

March 21, 2018

Suicide attacker blows self up at Nigerian university

A suicide attacker blew up himself in a university in Nigeria’s Borno state. However, no casualty was reported, police said on Tuesday. According to Borno Police spokesman Joseph Kwaji, the lone attacker detonated the explosives wired round his body at the parapet of the University of Maiduguri late Monday. Kwaji said there was no other...

February 21, 2018

Two Niger police killed in attack

Two policemen have been killed and seven wounded in an attack in southwest Niger, local media reported on Wednesday. It was not clear if the attack overnight Monday–Tuesday near the village of Kokoloukou, in Tillaberi region bordering Burkina Faso, was the work of jihadists or armed bandits. A local resident confirmed the attack to AFP but was...

January 24, 2018

Boko Haram kills nine in northeast Nigeria

Boko Haram jihadists have killed nine people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, militia members and local residents said on Wednesday, underlining the persistent threat to civilians. The first attack happened at about 11:00 am (1000 GMT) on Monday when six people collecting firewood were shot dead in Jinene village, near the border town...

January 17, 2018

50 killed in Nigeria suicide bombing

At least 50 people were killed when a teenage suicide bomber blew up his vest packed with explosives in a crowded mosque in Nigeria’s Mubi town, police said. A police official said the dawn attack took place after the prayers at the mosque in Adamawa state, Xinhua news agency reported. “We have 50 dead and...

November 21, 2017

Suicide bombers in Nigeria kill 10 people, many wounded

Four suicide bombers have killed at least 10 people and wounded many others in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The attackers, who included women, detonated their explosives in the Muna district, BBC reported on Wednesday citing the police. No group has said it was behind the attack. However, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has...

November 16, 2017

Boko Haram kills six Nigerian soldiers in raid

At least six soldiers were killed in heavy fighting when Boko Haram raided a military base and looted food from villagers in northeast Nigeria, the military and locals said. Jihadists in six pick-up trucks stormed the base in Sasawa village, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the Yobe state capital, Damaturu, at about 5:00 pm...

October 26, 2017

Britain pledges £200 m to help Nigeria fight Boko Haram

Britain will give Nigeria aid worth £200 million over five years to help it cope with the brutal insurgency being waged by Boko Haram jihadists, the foreign ministry in London has said. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson visited Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeast Borno State and epicentre of the Boko Haram organisation, to meet some...

August 31, 2017

Boko Haram attack on Nigeria oil team killed more than 50

More than 50 people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria earlier this week, military, medical and humanitarian sources have told AFP. “The death toll keeps mounting,” said one source yesterday involved in dealing with the aftermath of Tuesday's attack near Magumeri, adding: “Now we have more...

July 28, 2017

Nigeria raises alarm over Boko Haram attacks

The Nigerian government has alerted 70 commanding officers of the army to remain vigilant as Boko Haram insurgents withdrew to safe havens in other parts of the country. The insurgents are now in disarray, attacking soft and defenceless targets, and withdrawing to safer havens in other parts of the country, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, Nigeria's Chief...

July 11, 2017

Boko Haram food crisis: Farmers call to return home

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions. Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in the northeast but the eight-year Islamist insurgency has devastated activities, causing a desperate lack of food and sky-high prices. Many...

June 11, 2017