Boko haram
Eight Nigerian soldiers killed, up to 50 wounded, in Boko Haram attack
A military source said the military formation was part of an offensive to flush out insurgents from the Timbuktu Triangle, a longstanding militant stronghold in northeastern Nigeria.
Remaining abducted Nigerian schoolchildren freed, government says
Australia honors Bondi Beach attack victims as PM Albanese orders safety review
What's behind Nigeria's latest school abductions, church attack? - explainer
ISIS in Mozambique 'beheading' children, reports say
"One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children."
Central African Republic conflict grows – and matters to region
In the last weeks a series of incidents have raised concerns in a country beset by violence for the last decade.
Niger votes in hopes of first democratic transition
More than 40% of Niger's population lives in extreme poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed growth to a crawl.
Mass terror killings in Nigeria put US Somalia withdrawal in spotlight
The US decisions in Africa could send a message to groups destroying northern Nigeria, like Boko Haram, that the US is not committed in the long term.
Christians targeted in Nigeria: why the world should care - opinion
Excerpted and adapted from The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa.
Islamic State group in Nigeria kills 20 soldiers, displaces 1,000 people
The militants entered Monguno in Borno state posing as a convoy of soldiers on Tuesday evening, the sources said. They then attacked troops inside the town, destroying at least 750 homes.
Islamists kill nine soldiers in northeast Nigeria
A decade-long insurgency in the northeast, started by Islamist group Boko Haram in 2009, has claimed more than 30,000 lives.
Kidnaps and killings, Nigerian-style
Leah’s mother recently visited Washington, DC, where I had an opportunity to speak to her about her daughter, and about her own tireless efforts to see Leah released.
After Nigerian army abandoned town, Boko Haram slaughtered at least 60
The attack on Rann, home to a camp housing tens of thousands of people displaced by the Islamist insurgency, was one of the group's bloodiest.
Analysis: Al-Azhar and the surge of Muslim antisemitism
“In our recent history, eleven Jews have been assassinated, and some of them tortured, by radical Islamists"