Despite threats from Boko Haram, traders in northeast Nigeria risk their lives to keep markets and supplies alive.

In Chad's Lac province, 96% of the population is illiterate, and young people have resigned themselves to scraping by with ...

New evidence shows how the JAS group’s Shiroro cell adopts a flexible approach that tolerates local bandits and their vices.

In the second mass abduction in Nigeria within a week, armed groups have abducted at least 45 women in Zamfara state. Armed ...

North East Joint Task Force's troops killed 17 Boko Haram terrorists during clearance operations in Borno and Adamawa states, ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.

Under President Trump’s second term, sweeping US aid cuts—particularly to the UN World Food Programme—are fuelling fresh ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the Nigerian Army fulfilled its responsibilities towards them.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict has spilled into Nigeria’s northern ...

Nigeria losing ground ‘almost on a daily basis’ At its peak in 2013 and 2014, Boko Haram gained global notoriety after kidnapping 276 Chibok schoolgirls and controlled an area the size of Belgium.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.