Boko Haram

Yaounde, Dec 11: At least 11 people were killed and many others injured in a suicide bomb blast in Cameroon on Friday, a military source said. A 13-year-old girl broke into a house in Kolofata town around 6.00 a.m. (local time) and…

Abuja, Aug 17: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has said he is alive and still the chief of the Nigeria-based jihadist group, according to a new audio recording released on Sunday. "The global media reported that I am dead or I am sick…

Yaounde: At least 12 people were killed and many injured in a suicide bomb blast in Cameroon's Maroua region, a media report said. Witnesses and army sources told Xinhua that a woman detonated a bomb attached to her belt in a bar on…

At least 49 people were killed and many injured when two powerful explosions rocked a market in the Nigerian city of Gombe, a media report said on Friday. The explosions occurred on Thursday evening when the market was crowded with people…

At least 12 people were killed when Boko Haram fighters stormed a local community in Nigeria's Borno state, witnesses said on Wednesday. Warsala, an agrarian community located along a highway connecting Borno and its neighbouring Yobe…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday fired military chiefs, a move obviously made to re-position the military in the fight against Boko Haram, a presidential spokesman said. Replacements for the sacked military chiefs will soon be…

At least 15 Boko Haram terrorists were killed and 20 others arrested by Niger's Defence and Security Forces (FDS) in clashes that occurred between June 18 and 23 in the western African republic's Diffa region near the border with Nigeria,…

The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has announced that its leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Muslim world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has accepted the pledge of allegiance from the Nigeria-based Boko Haram. A 28-minute audio message…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday slammed "the continuing indiscriminate and horrific attacks" by Boko Haram against civilian populations in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, his spokesperson said. "The abduction and use of…

At least 207 Boko Haram militants were killed by Chadian army in Nigeria Tuesday, according to a Chadian army statement released Tuesday night. The statement said many military equipments were recovered, including one tank equipped with…