BBC News Africa is reporting that suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 45 people in a village in Borno state, north-east Nigeria, witnesses have said. The gunmen who stormed Njaba targeted men and boys before settin...
Alexander Smith of NBC News is reporting that Boko Haram has rounded up hundreds of women and children and imprisoned them in a school following what appears to be its deadliest attack, survivors and a local official said. Smith w...
Tansa Musa of Reuters Africa is reporting that Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 as...
Reuters Africa is reporting that militant Islamists are targeting Nigeria’s capital of Abuja and plan to load bombs on petrol lorries headed into the city, the government said. The author writes: “Militant group Boko H...
Oren Dorrell of USA Today is reporting that the radical Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has kidnapped 234 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok. Boko Haram opposes the ed...
BBC Africa is reporting that Nigeria’s military has killed 17 insurgents in an attack on two training camps belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist group. One soldier was also killed in the firefight that broke out after they m...
The Associated Press is reporting that Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission has criticized the nation’s secret police for detaining two journalists for days without charges. The news brief states: Chidi Odinkalu,...
CBS News is reporting the United States is sending troops to 35 African countries in 2013 as an anti-terror measure to combat the growing threat of extremist groups, many of whom are aligned with al-Qaeda. The move is part of an i...
