Boko Haram

Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, who survived being kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014, are now graduating from a U.S. college. Nearly seven years after Boko Haram snatched them from their beds in the northeast ... Read More

At least 23 civilian force members killed in northern Nigeria, officials say

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 28 (Reuters) - At least 23 members of Nigeria's civilian joint task force were killed on Saturday in separate attacks ... northeast and help the military fight Boko Haram ... Read More

Nigeria’s Chibok girls kidnapping: 10 years later, a struggle to move on

Maiduguri, Nigeria – It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a decade. In her home in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city ... Read More

Nigeria - Decade After Boko Haram Attack On Chibok, 82 Girls Still in Captivity

A parent of one of the girls forced into marriage with former Boko Haram ... in Northeast Nigeria on children. AllAfrica publishes around 400 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations ... 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

Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?

Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Boko Haram, which emerged as a jihadist movement in north-east Nigeria in 2009 ... worker had a heart attack when she heard the news and her health has ... Read More

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

was one of 276 schoolgirls taken in 2014 Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children 10 years after she was abducted by Boko Haram militants when she was a schoolgirl in ... Read More

Chibok girl rescued after 10 years in Boko Haram captivity

Lagos, Nigeria ... group Boko Haram a decade ago. Lydia Simon was rescued along with her three children by troops conducting an operation in the northern Borno State, the military said Thursday ... Read More