Russian Military Presence at Niger Air Base amid U.S. Withdrawal Signals Geopolitical Shift

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has downplayed the risks associated with the proximity of Russian and U.S. forces, emphasizing that the Russians are segregated from American troops ... Read More

Base housing US military entered by Russian troops in Niger, defense official says

Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that hosts U.S. troops following a decision to expel U.S. forces, according to a U.S. defense official. Read More

Boko Haram Attacks Military Camp In Niger State

Boko Haram insurgents, on Thursday, sacked a military base located at Allawa town in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Naija News learned that the insurgents, numbering about 200, invaded ... Read More

Boko Haram Ambushes Niger Soldiers Guarding Agricultural Site

Boko Haram fighters ambushed and wounded five Nigerien soldiers who were protecting a key agricultural site near the Nigeria border, local authorities said Wednesday. Read More

Boko Haram: Bodies of army officers, soldiers recovered from Niger community

Confirming the development, the Niger State Commissioner for Homeland Security, General Garba Abdullahi Mohammed explained that efforts were ongoing to track the Boko Haram insurgents. He ... Read More

Nigerian woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

Announcing the news on Thursday ... spread to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, uprooting about 2 million people across the region. The army statement said Simon was five months pregnant. Read More

Dozens of Boko Haram suspects arrested in Niger

Several dozen people suspected of having links to Nigeria's Boko Haram have been arrested in southern Niger since the start of cross-border attacks by the Islamist group, a local governor said. Read More

Boko Haram: A decade of terror explained

It is exactly 10 years since the leader of Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram ... platform in the world faces legal trouble in Nigeria. US General Michael Langley, says that Islamist ... Read More

Chibok girl rescued after 10 years in Boko Haram captivity

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — The Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamic group Boko Haram a decade ago. Lydia Simon was rescued along with ... Read More

UNICEF: Child suicide bomb attacks connected to Boko Haram increase ten-fold

The number of children used by the militant group Boko Haram in suicide ... UNICEF said suicide attacks involving children from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger rose from four in 2014 to ... Read More

Seven soldiers in Chad are killed in an explosion blamed on Boko Haram extremists

the government says. The interim president, Mahamat Deby Itno, announced the deaths Monday on social media. Chadian authorities said they suspected Boko Haram extremists from Nigeria were behind ... Read More