ARTICLES RELATING TO BOKO HARAM

Nigeria 'insurgency' children to be freed

2013-05-23 18:33

Nigerian authorities have detained children in connection with the Islamist insurgency they are battling, but the government plans to release them under a peace gesture announced this week.

Nigeria arrests 120 Boko Haram militants

2013-05-21 07:42

The Nigerian military has arrested 120 suspected Boko Haram militants in Borno State, in a sweep to curb the insurgency in the country’s north-east, the army says.

Islamists could face war crimes charges

2013-05-17 20:18

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists could face charges of crimes against humanity, the UN's human rights office has warned.

Boko Haram threatens Shoprite

2013-05-17 11:18

A South African Shoprite store operating in Lagos is under severe threat from suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria.

Nigeria extremists admit to kidnappings

2013-05-13 21:47

The leader of an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria says his group has started kidnapping women and children, as part of its bloody guerrilla campaign against the country's government.

Nigerian town on lockdown after attacks

2013-05-08 13:38

Nigerian soldiers have blanketed the town of Bama, where residents stayed indoors after co-ordinated assaults by heavily armed Islamist insurgents killed 55 people.

Nigerian Islamists attack town, kill 55

2013-05-08 08:11

Nigerian gunmen have launched co-ordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the north-eastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and springing 105 inmates.

Worries over Nigeria army violence claims

2013-05-03 22:10

The United Nations human rights watchdog has voiced concern about violence in north-eastern Nigeria that has inflicted numerous casualties and displaced civilians.

Nigeria in trying moment, says Jonathan

2013-04-30 07:31

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is currently going through a "trying moment", President Goodluck Jonathan says, while launching seven new police helicopters.

Nigeria bloodbath: Survivors still in hiding

2013-04-26 14:29

Many survivors of brutal clashes last week in a remote Nigerian town are still in hiding and rescue workers are trying to convince them to return to a home ravaged by sweeping fires, an official says.

Nigeria carnage - camps for victims

2013-04-25 21:20

Nigerian rescue workers are setting up temporary camps in a remote northeast town and distributed aid to the masses displaced by brutal fighting that left 187 people dead.

Nigeria to probe army conduct in clashes

2013-04-23 07:43

Nigeria is to investigate its army's conduct after clashes between troops and Islamist fighters in the northeast killed at least 200 people, the single deadliest event since the insurgency began.

French family home after hostage ordeal

2013-04-20 08:22

French President Francois Hollande has welcomed a family of seven back to France as they flew into Paris after two months in the hands of Nigeria's Islamist militants.

Cameroon says French hostages freed

2013-04-19 10:22

A French family of seven including four children kidnapped in north Cameroon and taken to Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants have been released, an official says.

Nigerians lynch 'attacker' after blast

2013-04-18 10:48

Muslim worshippers in northern Nigeria's Kano have lynched a suspected bomber after an explosive detonated outside the city’s main mosque, a military spokesperson says.

9 killed in shootout in northern Nigeria

2013-04-12 10:08

Nigerian Islamists have stormed a police station in the restive northeast sparking a shootout that left four officers and five insurgents dead, police say.

Nigeria blast kills 3 security officers

2013-03-19 21:43

An explosion targeting a security patrol outside a bank has killed two soldiers and a policeman in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

Blasts in Nigeria's Kano kill 25

2013-03-18 22:23

Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano have killed at least 25 people in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government.

Nigerian army arrests politician

2013-03-06 23:27

Nigerian soldiers have arrested a politician in northern Kaduna state after finding weapons and explosives in a raid on his house in a region frequently targeted by Islamist militants.

Nigerian police station attacked

2013-03-05 09:06

Suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have attacked a police station with gunfire and explosives in northeast Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, police say.

Boko Haram - no peace talks

2013-03-03 20:07

In a video, the Boko Haram leader has denied peace talks with Nigeria, promising violence will continue.

French kidnap victims likely separated

2013-02-22 07:58

A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France says, as Nigerian security forces comb restive border areas to find them.

Blast kills 2 in Northeast Nigeria

2013-02-21 10:22

A blast targeting a military patrol vehicle in a Nigerian city where a radical Islamist group is based has killed two civilians, the military says.

French hostages taken to Nigeria - official

2013-02-20 07:56

Kidnappers who seized seven members of a French family, including four young children in Cameroon, have taken them across the border into Nigeria, Cameroon's government says.

 

Nigeria to free women held for terrorism

2013-05-22 07:51

Nigeria says it would release several suspects held for "terrorist activities", including all women in custody, in what it called a peace gesture to the Islamists it is battling in the north.

Nigeria retakes Islamist strongholds

2013-05-20 22:01

Nigeria's military says it has re-established control in five remote areas of the northeast where Islamist insurgents had seized territory, as it pressed on with a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants.

Nigeria: Gunmen attack police station

2013-05-17 16:04

Gunmen have stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria’s northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on an Islamist insurgency.

Troops deploy in Nigeria's northeast

2013-05-16 09:20

Nigeria's military has announced a "massive" deployment of troops to its restive northeast, after the president declared a state of emergency in areas where Islamist insurgents have seized territory.

Anti-terrorism fight gets a boost

2013-05-14 21:08

South Africa will step up collaboration with other countries to fight terrorism and trans-national crime, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says.

New Nigeria Islamist video claims attacks

2013-05-13 12:11

The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage.

Chad emerges as African power broker

2013-05-08 10:42

Chad’s president, a survivor of countless rebellions, has stepped into a void left by Africa’s traditional heavyweights and turned his desert nation into a powerbroker as France disengages from its former colonies.

10 killed in Nigeria church, market attack

2013-05-06 07:48

Police say at least 10 people have been killed in an attack in northeast Nigeria that targeted a church and a local market.

Nigeria town paralysed after slaughter

2013-05-01 21:19

A few residents stand amid razed houses and charred vehicles in the Nigerian fishing town of Baga, still mostly deserted nearly two weeks after fierce fighting between troops and Islamist insurgents.

Gunmen kill 5 in attack on Nigerian town

2013-04-29 21:09

Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades, has attacked a police station and a bank in northern Nigeria, killing three policemen and two civilians.

25 killed in Nigerian shootout

2013-04-26 12:22

Twenty-five people have been killed in a clash between Nigerian security forces and suspected Islamist Boko Haram militants who robbed a bank and attacked a police station, police say.

Rescuers battle to reach Nigeria's Baga

2013-04-23 14:06

Rescue workers are struggling to reach a remote Nigerian town where the military is restricting access after fierce clashes that killed 187 people.

At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack

2013-04-22 07:58

Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists has killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s fat northeast, officials say.

At least 7 French hostages held in Africa

2013-04-19 14:13

At least seven French citizens are still held hostage in Africa after the release of seven members of a French family who were kidnapped in Cameroon in February.

Nigerian cleric rejects place on amnesty panel

2013-04-19 07:47

A radical Muslim cleric has rejected his nomination by Nigeria's president to a panel studying an amnesty offer to Islamist insurgents, saying he does not trust the government.

Nigeria sets up extremist amnesty group

2013-04-17 21:25

Nigeria's government says it is setting up a committee that will create a way to offer an amnesty programme to Islamic extremists in hopes of ending an insurgency across its north.

Nigerian panel to study amnesty for Islamists

2013-04-05 09:25

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has formed a panel to look at the possibility of offering an amnesty deal to Islamist insurgents who have killed hundreds, a source says.

Nigeria: French hostages in new video

2013-03-19 07:56

A video has surfaced showing a man who appears to be a French hostage held by Islamic extremists with six other family members kidnapped in February in Northern Cameroon.

Gunmen raid prison, free inmates in Nigeria

2013-03-16 11:48

Gunmen have raided a prison in a northern Nigeria border town with Cameroon, freeing 170 inmates and killing a civilian, officials and residents say.

Offer amnesty to insurgents, Jonathan urged

2013-03-06 14:47

Nigeria's top Islamic leader has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to offer amnesty to all combatants linked to an extremist group that had killed hundreds.

Nigeria military repel attack - 20 dead

2013-03-03 22:19

Nigeria's military have repelled an attack by the extremist group in the embattled northeastern state of Borno at a cost of 20 lives.

Boko Haram video cruel

2013-02-25 22:57

France says that a video of a kidnapped French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, was a "shocking" display of the kidnappers' cruelty.

Fate of Kidnapped French family 'uncertain'

2013-02-21 14:34

The fate of a French family kidnapped in Cameroon remains uncertain after a Cameroon minister denied they were free and a French minster backtracked on his claim they had been found alive.

Pirates kidnap six foreigners in Nigeria

2013-02-20 19:46

Armed pirates who stormed an oil service ship off Nigeria have kidnapped six foreigners and demanded a $1.3m ransom for their release, the police and military say.

Firm evacuates staff from Nigerian site

2013-02-18 12:31

A construction company has evacuated all of its staff from a northern Nigeria site after gunmen blasted into the facility and kidnapped seven foreigners, residents say.

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