Boko Haram

Boko Haram militants have killed 30,000 in Nigeria people since 2009.

The Nigerian army announced on Twitter that it freed over 1,000 hostages from the ISIS ally.

"The grand corruption of our recent past saw tens of billions of dollars frittered away on fraudulent oil deals and bogus military contracts."

The Islamist militant group also said they had returned the girls out of feelings of pity.

Confusion over whereabouts of schoolchildren following latest attack by Islamic militants in Nigeria.

As many as 100 of the 270 Chibok girls abducted from their school in April 2014 are still believed to be held captive by Boko Haram.

The Nigerian military has been hunting Abubakar Shekau for eight years but is yet to catch the shadowy jihadi.

The White House’s decision to penalize a key counterterrorism partner in Africa may already be having negative consequences.

Boko Haram has rampaged across northern Nigeria in recent years and many people do not feel it is safe to return to their homes.

The U.S. soldiers were on a training mission with allies from Niger.

The Nigerian military has been accused of arbitrary arrests and executions of people suspected of being members of the Islamist group.

Chad has been fighting Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda for years, but Trump says it’s not playing ball with Washington.

The Nigerian militant group continues to recruit young girls to carry out suicide attacks.

Abubakar Shekau, a jihadi with a $7 million U.S. bounty on his head, continues to give Nigeria’s military the slip.

Of the 434 suicide bombers sent out by Boko Haram, 56 percent were women. And the number is rising.

The damage is almost equivalent to the entire GDP of the U.S. island territory of Guam.

The dogs prevented the bombers from entering the hospital, forcing them to detonate their devices early.

If vigilantes are going to continue the fight against radical Islamists, they must operate within the law.

Nigeria’s military has just over a month to capture Abubakar Shekau. But he’s proven himself to be a formidable foe.

Amnesty International documented 101 cases of detention incommunicado and torture of suspects, who were often detained with little evidence.

The Nigerian militants continue to kill civilians, despite claims by the president that they have been defeated.

Two of the so-called Chibok girls, abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, recently visited Trump at the White House.

Nigerians’ views of Trump are among the most favorable in the world. Maybe it’s down to the fact that their own president has gone missing.

In a rare interview, Fulan Nasrullah, a former member of Boko Haram, says the government is once again underestimating the insurgents.  

Ethnic tensions are boiling over in Nigeria. They did that before, and more than 1 million people died as a result.

Nigeria is trying to buy U.S. aircraft but experts say they are unnecessary now the ISIS-aligned militants have been weakened.

The ISIS-linked group, while holding less territory, has remained a deadly rival to the country’s government.

The rights group claimed that nine senior commanders had overseen torture and abuses that led to some 8,000 deaths.

As a continent Africa already faces four droughts—working against the effects of climate change is a necessity, not an option.

Several suicide bombers blew themselves up and thousands of civilians fled the city where the ISIS-linked group began its insurgency in 2009.