ABUJA (Reuters) - The use of children as suicide bombers by the insurgents of Boko Haram has surged in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. In the countries fighting ...

For more than a decade, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has waged an intense insurgency across the Lake Chad ...

Nigerian soldiers’ widows have been reported as lacking support from the army, and even experiencing sexual harassment while claiming their late husbands’ benefits. Their concerns echo the findings of ...

Tears tumbled down the cheeks of 13-year-old Hauwa Madu as she recalled the death of her father three years ago at the hands of one of the world’s most feared terrorist groups. Nervously playing with ...

Women and villagers wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) ...

One of Africa’s most insecure regions is also home to one of its largest waterbird populations, despite decades of conflict that have made the area nearly impossible to study, according to new ...

Nigeria has postponed its presidential election on security grounds as the Boko Haram conflict intensifies, handing a potential lifeline to the ruling party as it battles a tough challenge from the ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it was stepping up its work in the Lake Chad region, where more than a million people have been forced from their ...

DAMASAK, Nigeria — When Boko Haram launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2010, Abdulhameed Salisu packed his bag and fled from his hometown of Damasak in the country's battered Borno state ...