The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the horrific terrorist attacks on 30 January 2016 attributed to Boko Haram in Dalori village in north...

Les organisations des Nations unies et les autorités maliennes ont lancé ce mardi un plan humanitaire pour l'année 2016. Ce plan devrait mobiliser près de 354 millions de dollars, pour financer notamment 127 projets. Selon l’ONU, près de 2,5 millions de personnes sont dans le besoin, qu'ils habitent...

Abdulkareem Haruna — Feb 3, 2016 4:12 am | Leave a comment Nigerian soldiers on Monday killed 100 insurgents and rescued over 1200 captives in Borno border communities after a gun battle at a local market where the insurgents visit weekly, officials and witnesses said. It was gathered that th...

Boko Haram terrorists yesterday suffered massive losses after an Air Force drone hit their base near Sambisa Forest, killing many and destroying equipment, according to the military. Also yesterday, two would-be suicide bombers were stopped by troops from entering Maiduguri, the Borno State capit...

Six people were reportedly killed while one person sustained gun-shot injury when suspected members of Boko Haram sect invaded Goniambari village in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State. The insurgents, according to sources, also destroyed some houses and vehicles using Improvised Explosive Dev...

From Paul Orude, Bauchi BAUCHI State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar, has warned that efforts to re­build the areas devastated by activities of insurgents in the North-East will fail unless the underlying problems of poverty and ignorance were adequately addressed. Abubakar gave the warning yester...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri
 The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, on Thursday said the war against Boko Haram terrorists had assumed a dangerous dimension that would require the collective efforts and vigilance of all Nigerians. Lawal made this comment...

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:00 GMT Author: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost a year after she was rescued from Boko Haram captivity by the Nigerian army, 16-year-old Zara John is still in love with one of the Islamic militants ...

How the tattered remnants of an Islamist sect transformed into a relentless terrorist army that Nigeria cannot defeat In February 2009, I was at a motor park in Maraba, a satellite of the Nigerian capital Abuja, looking for motorcyclists wearing dried vegetables on their heads. The Nigerian Polic...

In northeast Nigeria's Borno State, the fight between the Nigerian government and the Islamic State’s West-African Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Boko-Haram, is having drastic consequences for public health, causing widespread displacement and limiting access to medical care. Doctors Without...