By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many teachers and pupils are reluctant to return because of persistent violence in the region, the United Nations said on Tuesday. ...

GENEVA Nov 30 (Reuters) - West Africa's Boko Haram Islamist militant group is expanding and there is only a small window of opportunity to stop it, the top U.N. aid official in Cameroon said on Monday. Najat Rochdi, U.N. Resident Coordinator in Cameroon, said the group's strategy was to demonstra...

(Adds detail and context throughout) YAOUNDE Nov 28 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in a village in northern Cameroon on Saturday afternoon, killing at least five people, security sources and an official told Reuters. The attacks in the village of Dabanga...

(Adds second attack) NIAMEY Dec 1 (Reuters) - Militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram killed eight people in an attack on a village in the southeast of Niger, a private local radio station, ANFANI, said on Tuesday. The group is seeking to carve out an emirate based on a severe interpretat...

(Adds context) ABUJA Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria's national assembly on Tuesday approved a supplementary budget for 2015 of 574.53 billion naira ($2.89 billion), mainly to cover fuel subsidies and ensure gasoline supplies across the vast country into the new year. Despite being Africa's biggest ...

Residents of the northeastern city Yola recall the most recent bombing and ask if anywhere is safe from Boko Haram Adamawa's state capital used to be a haven for Nigerians on the run from Boko Haram's violence. Lately, however, the city of Yola has been the site of several bombings. The most rece...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in north Cameroon overnight, killing at least three people, an official and security sources said on Wednesday. Suicide bombings, often carried out by young women recruited by the Islamist militant group in neighbourin...

Au Tchad, au lendemain d'un triple attentat meurtrier, le gouvernement s'attend à de nouvelles opérations kamikazes dans la région du Lac Tchad. L'opération suicide qui a visé, samedi 5 décembre, un marché à Kelfoua, une des plus importantes îles du Lac Tchad, a fait quinze tués et une centaine de b...

Un triple attentat-suicide a fait au moins 27 morts et 90 blessés, samedi, sur une île du lac Tchad, où Boko Haram, qui se sert du lac comme lieu de repli, est particulièrement actif malgré les offensives militaires contre leurs bastions. Au moins 27 personnes ont été tuées et plus de 90 blessées...

L’armée nigériane annonce avoir bombardé les militants du groupe Boko Haram et détruit 11 bases des djihadistes dans la forêt de Sambisa. "Les troupes au sol ont tué plusieurs militants du groupe et libéré des enfants et des femmes, retenus en otages", a ajouté l’armée dans une déclaration. La...