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Hundreds of Boko Haram militants overnight attacked a military post in southeastern Niger, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine others, the defense ministry said on Wednesday. About 50 of the Islamist militants were…

It had already been announced by the group Islamic State in West Africa on Sunday, June 6, but Boko Haram confirmed it in a video. The jihadist leader took his own life almost a month ago to escape his rivals from Iswap, who besieged him in his stronghold in Sambisa. From our correspondent in Lagos,Liza FabbianIt is truly "like…

More than two weeks after fierce fighting between rival jihadist factions in northeastern Nigeria, the group Islamic State of West Africa (Iswap) announced the death of Abubakar Shekau, the historical leader of Boko Haram, in an audio message. This announcement specifically confirms that Abubakar Shekau blew up his explosive belt so as not to have to give up, while being besieged by the men of Iswap, in…

No ceasefire on the occasion of the election campaign in Niger. While Nigerians are being called upon this Sunday, December 27, to elect their president and their deputies, jihadists are talking about them in the Lake Chad region and on the border with Mali. Rural political leaders make the issue of security one of their main themes.…

The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…

The Boko Haram group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys' school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina, media reported on Tuesday. More than 330 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen attacked their school on Friday night, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forests. The Daily Nigerian said on Tuesday that it had received an audio message from Boko Haram leader…

Aged persons are disproportionately killed within the Boko Haram battle in northeastern Nigeria and are sometimes handled as a "reflection" by humanitarian authorities, Amnesty Worldwide stated on Tuesday. Its report entitled "My coronary heart is in ache" comes simply over every week after the bloodbath of 76 peasants within the state of Borno, which set a brand new commonplace for brutality in Boko Haram's 11-year-old extremist rebellion. Aged persons are being subjected to atrocities by each Boko…

The Nigerian authorities have intensified meetings and discussions following the massacre of at least 76 farmers of Boko Haram a week ago in the state of Borno, just twenty kilometers from the city of Maiduguri. The powerlessness of the Nigerian army in the face of the jihadist uprising raging in the north-east of the country has largely been highlighted.…

A weekend assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria signposted by the Boko Haram group left at the least 110 lifeless, UN humanitarian coordinators within the nation stated on Sunday. "No less than 110 civilians had been ruthlessly killed and plenty of others injured on this assault," Edward Kallon stated in an announcement after the unique tolls indicated 43 after which at the least 70 lifeless after Saturday's bloodbath of suspected Boko Haram fighters. "The incident is essentially the most…

A weekend assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria signposted by the Boko Haram group left no less than 110 useless, UN humanitarian coordinators within the nation mentioned on Sunday. "At the very least 110 civilians had been ruthlessly killed and plenty of others injured on this assault," Edward Kallon mentioned in an announcement after the unique tolls indicated 43 after which no less than 70 useless after Saturday's bloodbath of suspected Boko Haram fighters. "The incident is probably the most…