Pulling together a list of the wars most in need of international attention and support in 2016 is challenging for all the wrong reasons. For 20 years after the end of the Cold War, deadly conflict was in decline. Fewer wars were killing fewer people the world over. Five years ago, however, that pos...

ABUJA — Following the takeover of liberated and recaptured territories from the Nigerian military by the Police, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, security authorities told Vanguard, weekend, that more than 10, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, located in seven IDPs camps, in Damaturu...

Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than a hundred of the Islamists. The clashes in Bosso and Diffa, along the border with Nigeria, marked yet another expansion of violence attributed to...

By Ejike Ejike The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has so far registered a total of 11, 449 Nigerian returnees from the Republic of Niger at the transit camp in Geidam, Yobe State and transported about 7, 000 of them to their various states as at yesterday. In a statement signed by t...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 1/27/2016 - 16:41 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls. The blasts happened at about mid...

"Unfortunately, five civilians lost their lives at the incident and another died on the way to the hospital," he said. "Three soldiers also sustained injuries." Another attack took place on Sunday when eight people were killed outside a church by suspected Boko Haram gunmen on bicycles shortly...

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Friday 12/11/2015 - 17:02 GMT | Fourteen people were killed, some of them decapitated, in a Boko Haram raid on a village in northeast Nigeria, a resident and a civilian vigilante assisting the military said on Friday. The attack happened at about 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Thu...

C'est le bilan officiel des violents combats ayant opposé l'armée aux terroristes de la secte nigériane à Kolofata lundi 143 terroristes de Boko Haram et un soldat camerounais ont été tués lundi lors de l'attaque par le groupe islamiste nigérian de la ville camerounaise de Kolofata, selon un bila...

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Several people were killed in a twin bomb blast that rocked the Gombi Grain Market in Adamawa State on Friday. An eyewitness who spoke to our correspondent said that the blast occurred around 2pm when the market was filled to the brim. It was stated that several peopl...

Segun Olugbile with agency reports Eleven people were killed when three female suicide bombers attacked Benisheik town, in Borno State on Monday, a vigilante source told SaharaReporters. Also, the police in Gombe State said three policemen and two civilians were killed during an attack on Tria...