Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Nigeria’s Borno state
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ransom for their release, two of the victims and a local leader said. Bukar Isa, from the Mines Advisory Group, shows displaced victims […]
Islamist militants behead at least 10 farmers in Nigeria’s Borno state – residents
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Islamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria’s northern state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last week, militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency and the center of a more than […]
Essay: Nigeria’s security situation has got worse – what Tinubu’s administration needs to do about it
In an article first published on The Conversation, SALLEK YAKS MUSA looks at the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria and what steps new President Bola Tinubu needs to take to address it…
Islamist militants kill at least 25 in Nigeria’s Borno state
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Islamist militants have killed at least 25 people in an attack in a fishing town in Nigeria’s Borno state, police and residents said on Thursday. Police commissioner Abdu Umar linked the attack in Dikwa to Boko Haram insurgents. He said a policeman was killed in a separate incident. Dikwa is close to […]
UN seeks $US1.3 billion for Nigerians affected by insurgency
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters The United Nations on Thursday appealed for $US1.3 billion to provide assistance to six million Nigerians who are suffering the impact of a long-running Islamist insurgency in the north-east of the country. The militant Boko Haram group and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have been fighting Nigerian security forces in […]
An uncertain future: Uprooted again, Nigerians who fled Boko Haram face new dangers
PHILIP OBAJI, JR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on aid workers’ claims that as camps for the displaced close in Borno state, thousands of people are now at risk of extreme poverty and labour exploitation…
Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after abduction, governor says
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday. The raid on the school in the north-eastern town one night in April 2014 sparked […]
Jihadis attack town, humanitarian posts in north-east Nigeria
Maidguiri, Nigeria AP Jihadis linked to the Islamic State group attacked the north-eastern Nigerian town of Dikwa and humanitarian posts there, security officials said. The attack in Borno state that began late Monday night came about 48 hours after the Governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulum, visited the community along with other officials, to distribute […]
“I was crying”: Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl phones home after seven years
Abuja, NigeriaThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly seven years since Islamist militants kidnapped two of his daughters from their school in north-eastern Nigeria, a hurried phone call let Ali Maiyanga know that his family’s ordeal might soon be over. The call on Thursday evening was from Maiyanga’s daughter Halima, who – along with her sister Maryam – […]
Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met
World Watch Monitor Boko Haram has killed an aid worker and threatened to kill three other hostages, including the Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu. Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, 25, who worked as midwife with the International Committee of the Red Cross, had been abducted on 1st March, alongside two other health workers, when the militants attacked […]