By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 100,000 people uprooted by violence and living in camps in northeast Nigeria are set to return home soon, but many fear for their safety and ability to rebuild their lives, aid agency staff said on Thursday. The Nigerian ...

* Over 100 militants killed in November sweep operation - army * Hostages thought to be residents of border villages * Strike will not halt broader insurgency - analyst (Adds details from army sources, quotes from analyst, context throughout) By Anne Mireille Nzouankeu and Sylvain Andzongo ...

Droughts, unemployment and conflict over resources: residents around Lake Chad are grappling with the consequences of climate change. Terrorist groups like Boko Haram know how to exploit this to their advantage. "Lake Chad is dying." President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger was peremptory in his s...

The month-long demonstrations by pro-separatist ethnic Ibo youth in south-east Nigeria degenerated into violence on 2 December. At least eight of the thousands of protestors who had blocked the strategic Niger Bridge at Onitsha, Anambra state (linking the predominantly Ibo south east to western part...

Au Tchad, le week-end a été marqué par un triple attentat-suicide sur un marché qui a fait au moins 27 morts. Cette attaque sur une île du lac Tchad a été condamnée par le secrétaire général de l'ONU. Ban Ki-moon a réitéré le soutien de l'ONU au pays dans sa lutte contre le groupe jihadiste Bo...

YAOUNDE Dec 7 (Reuters) - Cameroon said on Monday that schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last year were not among a group of 900 hostages liberated by the West African country's army. Last week's hostage release raised hopes that some of the girls might be among the grou...

NIAMEY Dec 8 (Reuters) - Niger has agreed to transfer hundreds of prisoners from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram back to their home country of Nigeria to reduce pressure on its crammed prisons, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Boko Haram militants mostly operate in northeastern Nigeria bu...

By Emma Farge DAKAR Dec 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations sought on Wednesday a record $2 billion for the Sahel in what a senior U.N. official says is necessary to tackle a triple crisis of poverty, insecurity and climate change that could lead to a new wave of migration. The United Nations has...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of suicide bombings in Lake Chad in recent months, blamed on Boko Haram militants, has hindered healthcare and aid delivery and left tens of thousands of displaced people living in fear of further violence, aid agencies said ...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Tuesday 12/8/2015 - 11:50 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR with Ola AWONIYI in Abuja Boko Haram gunmen have torched almost an entire village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok from where over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, a resident who fled and a local elder said Tuesday....