Despite threats from Boko Haram, traders in northeast Nigeria risk their lives to keep markets and supplies alive.

In Chad's Lac province, 96% of the population is illiterate, and young people have resigned themselves to scraping by with ...

In the second mass abduction in Nigeria within a week, armed groups have abducted at least 45 women in Zamfara state. Armed ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict, now Africa’s longest struggle with ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the Nigerian Army fulfilled its responsibilities towards them.

Boko Haram was so closely linked to these trades that the Nigerian military has curtailed, and at times completely shut down, certain trade routes in northeast Nigeria.

Victims of the Boko Haram attack on Dalori rest in their damaged houses in Maiduguri, Nigeria, February 4. More than 80 people were killed in the attack, one of Boko Haram's deadliest in 2016.

The lack of faith in Nigeria’s ability to fight Boko Haram is likely to continue into the next US administration: Trump’s transition team recently asked the State Department why the United ...

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said. The assailants, who arrived on motorbikes ...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.

Nigeria losing ground ‘almost on a daily basis’ At its peak in 2013 and 2014, Boko Haram gained global notoriety after kidnapping 276 Chibok schoolgirls and controlled an area the size of Belgium.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.