The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) yesterday said it has arrested 24 fleeing insurgents along the Cameroonian borders. A statement by the spokesman of the task force, Muhammed Dole, said the terrorists attempted to escape the combined onslaught of Nigerian troops and the MNJTF within and ...

Au moins dix personnes ont été tuées dans un attentat-suicide dans la nuit de mercredi 29 juin au jeudi 30 juin dans la province de l’Extrême-Nord, dans une localité frontalière du Nigeria, a appris l’AFP de source sécuritaire. L’attentat s’est produit à la frontière du Nigeria, dans la localité ...

A suicide bomber belonging to Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least 11 people when he blew himself up close to a mosque in Cameroon near the Nigerian border, military sources and local officials said on Thursday. The attack occurred late on Wednesday and followed the breaking of the ...

The Nigerian Army has reopened the Maiduguri-Dikwa-Gamboru road three years after it was closed as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency. In 2013, at the peak of Boko Haram activities in Borno, the road was closed to motorists. Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno State, accompanied by the Chief of Army ...

(CNN) —A frail woman hesitates for a moment before handing over her sick child to a nurse. "This child cannot stand," says another medic as the severely malnourished boy is carried to the intensive care unit at the Gwange therapeutic feeding center on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Ni...

Diffa: “You’ll all be able to go home soon. Boko Haram is nearly finished,” Niger’s interior minister Mohamed Bazoum told a crowd of refugees seated quietly on dusty, sun-baked flats. His words of optimism were belied by the dozens-strong security detail required to protect him as he toured his c...

By Joe Bavier DIFFA, Niger (Reuters) - "You'll all be able to go home soon. Boko Haram is nearly finished," Niger's Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum told a crowd of refugees seated quietly on dusty, sun-baked flats. His words of optimism were belied by the dozens-strong security detail require...

A year after the suicide attack in the northern Cameroon town of Maroua on 25 July, 2015 that left 33 people dead, residents of the town’s district of Pont Vert are remembering the victims. They organized a silent march in the city’s streets from the Pont Vert area, where a female suicide bomber ...

Cela faisait des semaines qu'une grande offensive contre Boko Haram était attendue. Les troupes du Niger du Bénin, du Nigeria, du Tchad et du Cameroun réunis dans la Force multinationale mixte (FMM) avancent de concert pour acculer les terroristes retranchés sur les rives du lac Tchad. Depuis l’att...

Les Nations unies disent être inquiétées par les violences "inimaginables", commises par Boko Haram au Nigeria. Les actions du groupe djihadiste ont contraint des milliers de personnes à fuir leur lieu d'habitation, ce qui les oblige à avoir besoin d'une aide humanitaire, a déclaré, devant le conse...