The Islamic terror organization Boko Haram has killed at least sixty people in an attack in the Nigerian state Borno. This is what the human rights organization Amnesty International reports, that...
Because of an attack in Damboa, northeastern Nigeria, at least 31 people are killed. That is what two eyewitnesses said on Sunday. It is the biggest act of terror in weeks in the state of Borno, where the Islamic insurgents of Boko Haram have been sowing death and destruction for years. The responsibility has not yet been claimed.
Thousands of women and girls in Nigeria have been raped by members of the government army. This is reported by Amnesty International in the report They betrayed us.
Terrorists who supposedly belong to the Boko Haram movement killed nearly 20 people in the northeast of Nigeria and wounded dozens. The attack was Sunday evening at the southern edge of the city of Maiduguri, the capital of the state of Borno.
The aid organization MSF-Holland has stopped its activities in the Nigerian city of Rann after a fatal attack of presumably Boko Haram. The medical staff, 22 people from both Nigeria and abroad, was evacuated on Friday.
The movement has been declared dead by the Nigerian government several times, but Boko Haram's ghost has resurrected. With the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls, the Islamic terrorist group has once again hit hard and there is a fear of a new 'Chibok', the abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from that eponymous city that lead to worldwide protests and the movement, also known thanks to Michelle Obama. BringBackOurGirls led.
In clashes in Nigeria are five soldiers of the Nigerian army and at least fifteen Boko Haram fighters killed. The terrorist movement attacked an army base in the northeast of the country, reported Sunday a source within the military.
One of more than two hundred schoolgirls were abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 in northeastern Nigeria, Saturday found by soldiers.
The number of people dependent in northeastern Nigeria on food aid has almost doubled within a few months.
The Nigerian Air Force has mortally wounded the leader of the extremist movement Boko Haram. Some other Boko Haram leaders have been slain, claims the Air Force.
Two children in Nigeria were paralyzed by polio. It is the first time in two years that the virus reappears in Africa, the World Health Organization suggested Thursday.
The United Nations has temporarily suspended the delivery of aid to the province of Borno in northeastern Nigeria. This has been decided after a humanitarian convoy Thursday on the way back from a mission was attacked. According to UNICEF, two people were injured. They lie in a hospital.
Nigerian forces have slain during an action in Gangere 42 terrorists of Boko Haram and eighty hostages freed. This was announced by military spokesman Sani Usman Thursday.
An estimated quarter of a million children malnourished strongly in the Nigerian state of Borno. According to the UN children's organization UNICEF will be approximately 49,000 children die as there is no extra help. That's 1 in 5 children.
A suicide attack on Friday at least nine people were killed at a mosque in northeast Nigeria. Which reported a source in the Nigerian army.
In a camp for IDPs in northeast Nigeria last year killed more than 1,200 people, including 480 children. Reported aid organization Doctors Without Borders.
Chad sends 2,000 troops to neighboring Niger to participate in a counter attack on Boko Haram. The terrorist movement from Nigeria took last weekend in the town of Bosso. Some 50,000 people will be displaced.
Again, a girl rescued from Chibok, two years after she was abducted by a large number of fellow students by Boko Haram. The announced a spokesman for the Nigerian army Thursday night.
The first school girl from a group of about two hundred by Boko Haram was kidnapped in Nigeria, has been found. The girls were by Muslim terrorists in the city Chibok on April 15, 2014 included in the northeastern state of Borno. For two years they have been looking for.
The Nigerian army claims to have freed 455 hostages from the hands of terrorist group Boko Haram. Forty extremist fighters were slain and twelve camps of the terrorist movement were razed to the ground, an army spokesman announced Saturday.
CNN has won a video showing some girls who in 2014 from a boarding school in the Nigerian city Chibok. According to the station, it is a video made by the kidnappers for negotiators as evidence that the girls are still alive.
The Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram gets more and more children to commit suicide bombings. Nearly one shall be held in five suicide bombings by someone who is a minor and the group is back for more than three quarters of girls. Writing children's agency of the United Nations, UNICEF, in a new report.
About ten people were killed Friday when a man blew himself up in a market in northern Nigeria. Which have reported witnesses and a representative of the Red Cross.
In Nigeria last week forty people deceased with Lassa fever. Another 86 people have been infected since the turn of the year with the virus that causes internal bleeding. The disease has been reported in ten of the 36 districts in the country which has 180 million inhabitants.
By a suicide bombing in the Nigerian state of Borno on Sunday nine people died, 24 others were wounded, said the Nigerian army.
The Nigerian government in Borno region where schools reopened and a half years ago, more than two hundred girls were kidnapped by the terrorist organization Boko Haram. Precisely in the capital Maiduguri in the region still found Sunday a suicide bomber instead which seven people lost their lives.
In the Nigerian city of Lagos Saturday 45 alleged members of terrorist group Boko Haram arrested. The authorities said they planned an attack on a business district in the commercial port city of Lagos.
Boko Haram Wednesday twenty people slain in an attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria. Fighters opened fire on four vehicles. All occupants were killed, said a local militia that fights against the terror group.
