Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Let’s analyse the Boko Haram insurgency using Galula’s counterinsurgency manual. The Boko Haram war has festered because it is an irregular war that tanks and bullets alone can’t address. Have we ...

North East Joint Task Force's troops killed 17 Boko Haram terrorists during clearance operations in Borno and Adamawa states, says army spokesman - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Jihadist violence has displaced rural communities from Nigeria's northern agricultural heartland. Now, aid agencies warn that ...

Despite receiving some of the highest security budgets in Africa, Nigeria remains one of the most unsafe places on the continent.

Fulani herdsmen on Monday morning killed a Christian woman in a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, the latest of 17 ...

IN a single weekend marked by savagery, terrorists killed 38 persons who had been kidnapped months earlier in Zamfara and ...

The concept of battle tanks isn't much more than a century old, and these examples from around the world may have served for ...

The federal government has unveiled a series of achievements in its nationwide security and anti-corruption efforts, ...

Cameroon’s 92-year-old president is running again — and the cost could be political unrest at home and regional insecurity abroad ...

More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin ...

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