Nigeria is winning the war against Boko Haram Islamists in the restive northeast that has claimed thousands of lives, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday, dismissing suggestions the insurgents were having the upper hand. “We state authoritatively…
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Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists have reportedly killed dozens of people, mostly Christians, in a village in northeast Nigeria, an official and local residents said on Sunday. “They killed many, many people in the attack late on Saturday…
A gruesome attack by Boko Haram Islamists has killed 39 people in a village in the northeast, the area governor said after visiting the scene on Wednesday. “Up to 39 people have been killed and over 70 percent of the village has been razed to the ground…
A bomb exploded near a bus in Cairo Thursday injuring five people, a day after the government widened a crackdown on Islamists by declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. The windows of the red and black public transport bus were shattered…