...attempt to guard against another terrorist attack by Boko Haram. Fifty-four people were killed in an attack in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, on Sunday (20 Sept.). Before then, there...
At least 54 were killed and 90 injured in three bomb blasts in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria – the base of the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram – late on Sunday...
...Dr Fatima Akilu, head of the Nigerian government’s Countering Violent Extremism Programme, said she found the ability of former captives of Boko Haram to think for themselves had proven “inadequate”....
...Bodies, Their Battleground: Boko Haram and Gender-Based Violence against Christian women and children in North-Eastern Nigeria since 1999, sheds light on Boko Haram’s ultra-Salafist ideology which underlies the use of...
...slideshow, its displacement camps host some of the Christians who have survived Boko Haram atrocities. Open Doors, a charity campaigning against the persecution of Christians, estimates that Boko Haram has...
...Republic and Nigeria have had conflicts with religious dimensions: these are affecting Cameroon. Yet the Cameroonian authorities under-estimate conflict potential, as their attention is focused only on Boko Haram. ICG...
On Sep 5, Nigeria’s President marked 100 days in office. According to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Boko Haram – to intimidate the new President – has intensified its...
It’s been 500 days this week, since the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian village of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria....
...door, three masked gunmen inside told him to lie down on the ground. “There are no police here now – it is Boko Haram from now on,” the assailants said,...
In 2014, following the kidnapping of 230 teenage girls from the mainly Christian enclave of Chibok in northern Nigeria, World Watch Monitor asked the question: How does Boko Haram justify...