In Nigeria, the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his military Thursday to wipe out the Boko Haram insurgency in the country within three months. The strong rhetoric comes as Nigerian troops have joined forces...
The Nigerian military is in the midst of an aggressive campaign to take back areas held by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. As soldiers advance, they have freed hundreds of women and girls...
Two hundred and nineteen still-missing school girls who were abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram in northeastern are being remembered across Nigeria and in several cities around the world as they mark their...
Results are in for the presidential elections held over the weekend in Nigeria. For the first time in the country’s modern history, an opposition candidate defeated a sitting president via democratic elections. FSRN’s Shannon...
The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a major attack on a town in northeastern Nigeria. More than two thousand people were reportedly killed in the attack in Baga town, the worst...
Amnesty International says hundreds – possibly as many as two thousand – civilians were killed when Boko Haram laid siege to, and eventually overran, the town of Baga in northeastern Nigera. Baga, which hosted...
A healthcare worker in Glasgow has become the first confirmed Ebola patient in Britain. The unnamed woman returned to the UK from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, but is currently in isolation and health...
The jihadist group Boko Haram has allegedly abducted about two hundred women and girls from a remote village in northeastern Nigeria. The same group is responsible for the kidnapping of more than 200 school...
The Islamist sect Boko Haram is intensifying its activities with the kidnappings and deadly raids in Nigeria’s northeast. In the latest attack, as many as 50 students were killed when a suicide attacker detonated...
Fighting in northeastern Nigeria between Boko Haram militants and the country’s armed forces has displaced around 400 thousand people this year alone. That’s according to the most recent estimate from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management...
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