A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls’ school, a police spokesman said on Thursday. Dozens of gunmen in cars and on motorcycles stormed the neighbouring villages of…
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Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday cancelled a visit to the hometown of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militants, provoking fresh criticism of his handling of the crisis. A senior government official told AFP that Jonathan…
US officials slammed Nigeria’s “slow” response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamic militants and renewed criticism Thursday of the military’s poor human rights record. Washington considers the Western African giant a strategic…
Boko Haram is believed by many to be hiding out in the Sambisa forest in northeastern Nigeria. A vigilante network of villagers has been venturing into the woods to search for the over 200 missing girls. Few others dare enter this no-mans land. What…
Relatives of more than 200 schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram on Thursday called for their unconditional release, after Nigeria’s government ruled out a prisoner swap with the extremists. An on-the-run Boko Haram suspect wanted in connection with…
A suspect wanted over the deadliest-ever attack in Nigeria’s capital — a blast claimed by Boko Haram Islamists — has been arrested in Sudan, a source close to the case said Thursday. Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche was detained on Tuesday as he tried to get a…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants a month ago. Britain’s Africa minister Mark Simmonds, in Nigeria for talks about…
The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the Pentagon said Wednesday. However, the data is not yet being shared with the…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid to extend an ineffective year-long state of emergency in the northeast has exposed him as an out-of-touch leader with no credible plan to end a brutal Islamist conflict, experts said. Few dispute the severity…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan faces an uncertain political future after attracting a torrent of criticism over his handling of the mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists. Jonathan was already on the back foot even…
The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help in the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The United States has deployed the robotic Global…
Britain has offered Nigeria surveillance aircraft and a military team to help with the search for more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted a month ago by Boko Haram militants, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday. “Today I can announce we have…
Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds will visit Nigeria on Wednesday for talks to try and bring about the release of around 130 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants a last month. It has been reported that Britain could send drones and other…
The commander of US forces in Africa held talks Tuesday in Nigeria as Washington sought to help the government in Abuja trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants. General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, flew to Nigeria…
Nigeria on Tuesday said it was willing to talk to Boko Haram militants, as the United States sent its top Africa general for talks on the rescue mission of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls. The governor of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, Kashim…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday asked the country’s parliament for a six-month extension to the state of emergency in three northeastern states riven by Islamist militant violence. “I most respectfully request the distinguished senators…
Conditions set out by Boko Haram’s leader for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls held hostage by the Islamists may lead to a deal that sees the girls freed, analysts said Monday. In a new video obtained by AFP, the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau…
The United States said it is flying “manned” missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government dismissed a prisoner-swap offer from the Boko Haram kidnappers. “We have shared commercial satellite imagery with…
Dozens of women’s rights activists took to the streets of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday to denounce the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Islamist militants. Members of 20 organisations who had come together near the Nigerian…
French President Francois Hollande said Monday he had invited US and British officials to attend a Paris summit this weekend focusing on the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I asked the…