Niamey a finalement autorisé l'évacuation de l'opposant Hama Amadou dont l'état de santé s'est dégradé en prison. Malgré ce coup de théâtre à quatre jours du second tour de la présidentielle, l'opposition reste décidée. C'est à bord d'un avion médicalisé que Hama Amadou a quitté Niamey pour Pari...

Alhaji Kyari Batarama, the Chairman of Gujba Local Government Council of Yobe, said Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from 15 villages sacked by the Boko Haram sect have been resettled in their communities. Batarama, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...

The Nigerian Military yesterday said that it has discovered that female Boko Haram bombers now disguise in men’s clothing to perpetrate their bombings. The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, in a statement through its Director of Defence Information, DDI, Brig-Gen Rabe Abubakar, said that the discovery was ...

Zacheaus Somorin with agency report People uprooted by Boko Haram violence in the northeast are leaving host families and moving to camps for the displaced as food becomes increasingly scarce, the European Commission’s humanitarian arm (ECHO) said wednesday. Seven million people do not have enou...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, March 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People uprooted by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria are leaving host families and moving to camps for the displaced as food becomes increasingly scarce, the European Commission's humanitarian arm (ECHO) said on Wednesday. ...

Military kills 25 terrorists, rescues 18 more hostages Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri and Senator Iroegbu in Abuja Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the nation is winning the war against the Boko Haram insurgency. This came as troops from the 151 Task Force Battalion, 21 Br...

Au Tchad, l’administration publique s’apprête à vivre une grève sèche et illimitée à partir de ce mardi. Une grève à l’appel de l’Union des syndicats du Tchad, membre de la Coalition de la société civile « Ça suffit », qui milite contre une candidature du chef de l’Etat à la présidentielle du 10 avr...

By Anne Mireille Nzouankeu YAOUNDE, March 25 (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, military and local government source...

NIAMEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Niger opposition leader Hama Amadou, jailed since November on baby trafficking charges, was granted a provisional release by a court on Tuesday a week after losing a presidential run-off election, his lawyer said. Amadou, a former speaker of parliament, has denied the...

The government of Cameroon has handed over two suspected female bombers who claimed to be among the 219 missing Chibok girls abducted in 2014 to Nigeria for proper identification. Maryam Alhaji Wakeel, 12, and Aishatu Usman, a 35-year-old mother of two, were arrested with explosives in Limani, Came...