De plus en plus d’attentats-suicides sont perpétrés par des jeunes filles ou des fillettes, dans le nord du Nigeria. Ces attaques, pas toujours revendiquées, portent la signature de Boko Haram, qui inaugure une pratique sur le continent africain. Le 22 février, une fillette de 7 ans tue sept pers...

Witnesses and hospital sources said a total of six people were killed after she triggered the explosive devise in a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum on Sunday. "(She) refused to be checked at the gate to the market and an argument ensued," witness Ibrahim Maishago told the Reuters news...

Ajoute déclarations Issoufou à Diffa et nouveau bilan de l'attaque. Bien noter que cette attaque a eu lieu à "Karamga" et non "Karouga" comme orthographié plus tôt par l'armée nigérienne. Sept soldats nigériens et 15 combattants de Boko Haram sont morts vendredi soir lors de combats survenus sur ...

Whenever Emmanuel Ali Talka hears news of a female suicide bombing in Nigeria, he is paralyzed with fear despite having found relative safety in neighboring Cameroon. Talka, a 36-year-old trader from Nigeria's Borno state, fled attacks by Boko Haram Islamists with his two wives and four of their ...

At least 30 people were killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages near the town of Chibok, in north-east Nigeria, a community leader and resident have said. The attacks on Thursday targeted the villages of Thlaimakalama and Gatamarwa, which were torched by the rampaging militants, said Pogo Bitr...

Zinder - Aboubacar, usually a worker for a non-governmental organisation, has now taken on another, more ominous role: watching out for suicide bombers. "We watch everyone," he said in Niger's second-largest city of Zinder. "Last Thursday, a man in a turban whom we had never seen before came to t...

Embuscades, tirs d'armes lourdes, combats au "corps à corps", l'armée camerounaise a repoussé lundi un nouvel assaut des islamistes de Boko Haram près de la frontière nigériane, à Waza, ont raconté à l'AFP des soldats qui disent affronter un ennemi "bien organisé". A l'intérieur d'un transport de...

Du groupe islamiste nigérian Boko Haram, peu de choses sont sûres: capacité à attaquer simultanément sur plusieurs fronts au prix de pertes considérables, arsenal conséquent. Pour le reste - effectifs, organisation interne, financement... -, l'opacité prévaut, constatent experts et militaires. La...

Boko Haram militants attacked a village in southeastern Niger overnight, killing three people including the local chief and wounding three others before being driven off by security forces, a military source said. The Islamist group has killed thousands in a six-year insurgency in Nigeria. Its ra...