ABUJA—Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Boko Haram terrorists on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari—who was not present—heading to his hometown in the northern state of […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—The leader of Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, according to a jihadi organization linked to the ISIS terrorist group. An audio recording purportedly from Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of the ISIS West Africa Province, or ISWAP, said Shekau detonated explosives killing himself after a battle between the two […]
At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria’s Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said. “Boko Haram attacked Pemi village, killed seven people and abducted another seven, including a pastor,” Kachallah Usman, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN on […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northeastern Nigeria, residents and authorities said Saturday. Gudumbali is a town to which just months ago the government encouraged thousands of displaced people to return. The attack highlights the difficulties Nigeria’s government has faced in trying to reassure well over 1.5 […]
ABUJA—One hundred and ten girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, the information ministry said on Sunday, in what may be one of the largest abductions since the Chibok kidnappings of 2014. The Islamic terrorist group attained international notoriety after abducting more than 270 schoolgirls from the […]
BAMA, Nigeria—Nigeria’s government has a plan for the northeast, torn apart by eight years of conflict with Boko Haram: displaced people will be housed in fortified garrison towns, ringed by farms, with the rest of the countryside effectively left to fend for itself. The vision for the state of Borno, ground zero for the war […]
ABUJA—The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has killed 381 civilians in Nigeria and Cameroon since the beginning of April, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday, a testament to the terrorist group’s deadly resurgence. The Nigerian military has repeatedly said Boko Haram has been “defeated”. But in recent months, it has carried out a string […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—A suicide bomber killed 14 people in northeast Nigeria, the state emergency agency said on Saturday, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, days after a resurgence in the jihadist group’s activities prompted a shift in military tactics. The attack in the town of Dikwa in Borno state came days after […]
BAUCHI, Nigeria—Suspected Boko Haram members released a video on Saturday that shows three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team in northeastern Nigeria, one of whom asks the government to reduce the use of force against the jihadists. The team, which included university staff and employees from Nigeria’s state oil firm, was kidnapped by suspected […]
