...few who’ve regained freedom, like Amina Ali Nkeki, have found themselves not completely free. Amina was the first to escape, in May, with her Boko Haram husband and baby. Soon...
...“Western-education” schools (Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden”). Rev. Joshua also called on the government to return Christian run-schools, locally known as “missionary schools”, to their owners (with a...
...questioning captured Boko Haram militants. She has a six-month-old baby. The mass abduction on 14 April 2014 eventually generated headlines around the world and fuelled a social-media storm, with the...
...speculation that the girls were handed over in exchange for the release of Boko Haram fighters. AFP quoted a local source in saying that four Boko Haram prisoners had been...
Muhammadu Buhari Facebook The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the ongoing deadly attacks committed by suspected Fulani herdsmen...
...much speculation, Boko Haram may have a role in training them, adding: “There’s a lot of concern [the cleansing by Fulani militias is] an extension of the Islamisation of Nigeria”....
...Nigeria’s north-east, Bakindo said. As well as Boko Haram there are other extremist groups “But apart from Boko Haram, there are a number of extremist Islamic groups, such as Aljana...
...of a wider regional problem. Across Africa’s vast Sahel region, which spans the width of the continent, jihadist groups such as Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram...
While violent attacks on Christians at the hands of Islamist militants Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen in the northeast and Middle Belt of Nigeria have captured media attention, the...
...army has made gains against the Boko Haram Islamist group, but it still carries out regular bombings. Two separate attacks were previously carried out by two female suicide bombers in...