Dix fois plus d'enfants utlisés comme kamikazes par Boko Haram en un an dans la région du Lac Tchad selon un l'UNICEF. Quarante-quatre enfants ont été utilisés pour mener des attaques suicide au Cameroun, au Tchad et au Nigeria l'an dernier, contre quatre en 2014. Les trois quarts étaient des ...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani YOLA, Nigeria, Feb 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the first time in his life, 17-year-old Muhammed Sani can identify the letters of the English alphabet, read simple sentences in English, such as: "I want to eat" and "I want to go home". He can also work out si...

by Lin Taylor | @linnytayls | Thomson Reuters Foundation Thursday, 5 January 2017 17:45 GMT Unfolding catastrophe in the Lake Chad basin was named the most neglected crisis of 2016 (Adds details) By Lin Taylor LONDON, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in the Lake Chad basin h...

12 April 2017 – The use of children, particularly girls, by the Boko Haram terrorist group in violent attacks in the Lake Chad region has seen an “alarming” surge in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported. According to the UNICEF report, Silent Shame: Bringing out the voic...

Female suicide bombers in Nigeria are now carrying babies to avoid detection in their attacks, authorities warn. An attack in the town of Madagali on 13 January saw two women detonate their devices, killing themselves, two babies, and four others. They had passed a vigilante checkpoint, mistaken f...

Abuja - Over 25 health workers have been killed by members of the Boko Haram sect since the beginning of this year, Executive Director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammad, has stated, Punch reports. Muhammad said that the death of health workers in the course of ca...

Boko Haram militants attacked troops from Niger on an island base in Lake Chad, the government said Saturday, in a raid believed to have taken a heavy toll on the army. "At dawn on April 25, fighters from the terrorist group Boko Haram riding motorised canoes attacked the island of Karamga, a pos...

On Tuesday 9 February, two Nigerian girls entered a camp for displaced people in the country's north-east. Minutes later they detonated their explosive vests, killing 58 people. A third girl refused to take part in the suicide mission for Islamist militant group Boko Haram. This is her story. Hau...

Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started, not long after the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked her town in Nigeria. Her husband was nowhere to be found, and so she pulled her four-year-old son onto her back and grabbed her two little girls by the hand. The 30-ye...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Friday 6/10/2016 - 09:50 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR At least 10 people are "starving to death" every day in a camp in northeast Nigeria for people displaced by Boko Haram violence, highlighting warnings about a food crisis in the Lake Chad region. A civilian vigilante and a...