Three female suicide bombers have blown themselves up and killed 27 people in north-east Nigeria, according to local militia, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram militants. One bomber detonated her device on Tuesday at a market in Mandarari 25km from the city of Maiduguri while two mo...

N'Djamena, Chad | AFP | Saturday 5/1/2016 - 03:42 GMT by Valérie LEROUX With US and European support, African states threatened by Boko Haram are out to smash the militant Islamist group terrorising the region -- but a coordinated response is required if they are to succeed. A regional offe...

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA/WASHINGNTON — Three years ago, at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, Nigerian soldiers stopped all fishing activities in the country's section of Lake Chad. Militants had infiltrated the ranks of the fishermen, the army said, and were using the guise to fund arms purchases a...

A UNHCR report reveals that 65.3 million people were displaced as of the end of 2015, compared to 59.5 million just twelve months earlier Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015 reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human ...

Local support for the so-called West Africa Province of the Islamic State (more commonly referred to as Boko Haram) has always been a nebulous subject. Often measured in terms of recruitment, local support for the organisation has been erratic over time and shaped by various factors. Nonetheless,...

An alliance of Tuareg-led rebels and the Malian government have signed a peace deal which is meant to draw a line under a 2012 uprising. The deal should grant the Tuareg rebels greater autonomy in the northern areas of this African country. Mali has been embroiled in chaos since a coup in 2012. ...

Chad's president, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, is seeking re-election for a fifth term when voters go to the polls on 10 April. President Idriss Deby Itno has been in power for 26 years. President Deby came to power through a military coup in 1990. He has maintained tight control over...

Wild polio virus (WPV1) outbreak After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type one (WPV1) cases with onset between July and August 2016. All three cases were detected from Borno State, in childr...

By Tom Miles GENEVA Nov 16 (Reuters) - The four countries fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa's Lake Chad region should unite behind a broader strategy to ease the poverty and climate change that are spurring millions to migrate to Europe, a U.N. official said on Monday. Nigeria,...

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA—The United Nations has warned Federal Government against returning internally displaced persons, IDPs, in the North-East to their homeland, saying the area was not safe. Giving the warning, yesterday, in Abuja at the Lake Chad Basin Regional Protection Dialogue for the victi...