Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan on Saturday, more than a year after he had survived a previous assassination attempt, officials said. “With deep consternation and indignation, I strongly condemn the cowardly…
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Suspected Islamist militants launched a brazen daytime attack in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday. Witnesses say gunmen armed with explosives stormed the Giwa military barracks, triggering a fierce gun battle with soldiers. The assailants…
At least 100 people were killed in the religiously divided centre of Nigeria this weekend, local officials said on Sunday, as tensions between Muslim-dominated herdsmen and mostly Christian farmers again turned deadly. About 40 assailants armed with…
Explosions and gunfire rocked the volatile northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Friday as scores of suspected Boko Haram Islamists attacked a military barracks, residents said. The gunmen stormed the Fauri area of Maiduguri, a hotbed of the Boko Haram…
Gunmen on motorbikes in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed at least 69 people and torched several homes in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. The state’s police chief, Hurdi…
Gunmen in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed 69 people in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. “So far, 69 bodies have been recovered from the attacks carried out by a large…
The kidnappers of Chief Inengite Nitabai, cousin to President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded the sum of N500m ransom to set…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday returned to a village in northeast Nigeria where 106 people were killed last week, torching homes, shooting and setting off explosives, a local official said. The latest attack in Izghe, Borno state, happened at…
Gunmen killed 13 people, including nine children, in a raid on a village in central Nigeria on Thursday, an official said, the latest violence to hit a region wracked by years of sectarian conflict. “The attack took place around 1:00 am (0000 GMT) and…
An attack by scores of Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast Nigeria town of Bama has killed 60 people and caused massive destruction to public buildings, police told AFP Thursday. Residents said gunmen stormed the town at roughly 4:00 am (0300 GMT)…