Violence by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast continues to send thousands of refugees across the border into neighbouring Cameroon. According to Cameroonian authorities, some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from Adamawa state after insurgents attacked and captured the town of Mubi in lat...

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BY AUGUSTINE AMINU The UN Refugee Agency on Tuesday said violence by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast continues to send thousands of refugees across the border into neighbouring Cameroon. UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), said that some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from...

The terrorists arrived suddenly at 4:00 p.m. that ill-fated Wednesday, November 5, catching the Nigerian soldiers and their commanders off-guard. As they invaded the headquarters of the 174 Battalion, Abadan Local Government Area of Borno State, located close to the Nigerian border with Niger, the B...

Des centaines de combattants de Boko Haram se sont emparés jeudi deux villes de l'Etat d'Adamawa, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, après avoir été repoussés d'une des plus grandes villes de cet Etat par des milices locales, ont rapporté des habitants à l'AFP. Les islamistes ont pris le contrôle de Hong...

Le représentant spécial de l’ONU pour l’Afrique centrale, Abdoulaye Bathily, a appelé jeudi la communauté internationale à se "mobiliser davantage" face à "aux menaces terroristes" que fait peser le groupe islamiste armé nigérian Boko Haram en Afrique centrale. "Les attaques meurtrières menées par ...

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a market in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 12 people. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for Sunday's blast in Azare, a town in Nigeria's Bauchi State, but similar bombings have been carried out in the region by the Islamist militan...

La prise de Chibok est hautement symbolique, les autorités nigérianes ayant été très critiquées, à l'international, pour leur manque de réactivité au moment du rapt des lycéennes, dont 219 sont toujours aux mains des islamistes plus de six mois plus tard. Tombée jeudi après-midi aux mains du groupe ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is to ask the country's national assembly to extend a state of emergency in three northeastern states hit by fighters when it expires this week, the justice minister has said. Jonathan ordered troops into Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in May last year. Several ...

L'un des plus hauts dignitaires musulmans du Nigeria, l'émir de Kano, a affiché son soutien aux miliciens locaux qui combattent les islamistes de Boko Haram, et mis en question la compétence de l'armée. Devenu émir cette année, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi avait été limogé de son poste de gouverneur de la ...