A new report on women who are Boko Haram returnees offers muted praise for how Nigeria has improved their reintegration into communities, but criticized continued abuses and the lack of funding to support successful programs. “Returning from the Land of Jihad” is a 35-page report released Tuesday by the International…
Authorities in Nigeria say they are working to secure the release of the last remaining student abducted from the Government Science and Technical College in February, who was not released with more than 100 of the Dapchi girls who returned early Wednesday morning. President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to meet…
In Nigeria, the released Dapchi girls left Damaturu in midafternoon Wednesday, continuing their 135-kilometer journey to Maiduguri as part of a heavily secured military convoy. Nigerian state radio said the girls abducted from the Government Science and Technical College in February were first seen at Dapchi General Hospital before being…
Nigeria has deployed 2,000 special forces troops to Maiduguri and the northeast, with the mission to capture Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and stabilize a region under renewed attack by Islamic extremists. The troops are a response to a demand by Nigerian military leadership that Shekau be captured dead or…
New waves of violence gripped Nigeria on Wednesday as the death toll rises in clashes in the Katsina State region, while a bomb blast in Maiduguri has claimed up to 18 lives in the nation’s northeast. Boko Haram was believed responsible for the terror attack in Borno state, where a car…
An ambush was carried out yesterday by suspected Boko Haram militants on a military convoy that was carrying the new head of the Nigerian army, the military said. The ambush occurred on Saturday in the northeastern Borno state. It led to a crash leaving one soldier and at least five…
On Wednesday July 1 at 11:30 a.m. local time, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a hospital in Maiduguri in the northeast of Nigeria just after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited to nearby camps housing people who had been displaced by the conflict produced by Boko Haram’s attempt to…