Nigeria’s Woro massacre in early February 2026 was a large‑scale attack on two mainly Muslim farming communities that left Muslim and Christian civilians dead, including adults and children, community leaders, and people living on the economic margins. Local leaders...
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Nigeria Adjusts Airstrike Strategy Under Expanded U.S. Security Cooperation
Nigeria is adjusting how it conducts air operations against armed groups as part of an updated security arrangement with the United States. Under the new framework, Nigerian fighter aircraft will increasingly rely on U.S. reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering...
Nigeria: Questions Mount Over U.S. Airstrikes in Northern Nigeria
By Leslie Varenne, MondAfrique: The American strikes carried out in Nigeria on Christmas Day raise serious questions. Beyond the confusion surrounding the objectives of the operation, inconsistencies in official statements, and the unclear nature of the targets, the...
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Changing Landscape of Africa-U.S. Travel
As the United States prepares to implement a new round of immigration and visa policy changes in 2026, the effects are being felt across Africa and parts of the Middle East. What began as a technical overhaul of screening and enforcement procedures has evolved into a...
Nigerian president Tinubu under pressure to avoid war with northern neighbor Niger
By Camille Malpat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano, Nigeria: Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu to reconsider a threatened military intervention against junta leaders in neighbouring Niger, ahead of a Sunday deadline to reinstate the country's...
Nigeria grapples with end of fuel subsidy
By Alexandre Martins Lopes: Nigerians are struggling with surging fuel prices after newly elected President Bola Tinubu declared an end to popular subsidies, a move analysts and experts said was long overdue. On his first day in office, Tinubu kept to his campaign...
Nigeria’s Conflict Goes Global With Washington Entering the Fight
The United States’ Christmas Day airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria mark a rare but consequential shift in the...
Nigeria: Cash-strapped Boko Haram kidnaps herders for ransom
Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 30 ethnic Fulani herders near northeast Nigeria's Lake Chad, demanding ransom for...
Nigeria: Separatist tensions flare in Anambra as gunmen kill five troops
Gunmen killed five soldiers and a civilian in southeast Nigeria, police and local media said Thursday, after the...
Nigerian town caught between jihadist war and peace
By Camille Malpat: Once a symbol of the jihadist war in northeast Nigeria, the town of Bama today betrays the grinding...
Insurgencies: Boko Haram fighters pouring into Niger’s side of Lake Chad
Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military...
Nigeria: Gunmen kill five, including Indian national in Ajaokuta, Kogi state
Gunmen have killed five people, including one Indian, in Nigeria's Kogi state, police said Saturday, with the region...
Jihadists kill six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon
Suspected jihadists have killed six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon's Far North region, close to the Lake Chad hideouts...
Gunmen kill three police in restive southeast Nigeria
Suspected separatists in southeast Nigeria have killed three policemen and wounded two others, police on Friday....
Nigerian army claims it killed Jihadist chief Al-Barnawi: Profile
By Emmanuel Anule: The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi,...
Nigeria army says it is responsible for spike in Boko Haram surrenders, but ISWAP may be the real reason
By Audu Abba Kurama with Animu Abubakar in Kano Images of bedraggled jihadists and families surrendering to the...
Nigeria: Curfew in Jos amid exploding violence
By Muhammad Tanko Shittu: A central Nigerian city caught up in intercommunal tensions remained under 24-hour curfew on...
Nigeria: Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau declared dead by rival ISWAP
By Aminu Abubskar When Nigeria's military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been badly wounded in an air...
Nigeria: Gunmen kill 66 people in Wasagu/Danko
A gang of cattle thieves killed 66 people in raids on seven villages in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state, police told...
Nigeria: Chaos in northeast Nigeria as jihadist groups compete for leadership
By Aminu Abubakar For years, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was a dreaded figure in Nigeria's insurgency,...
Nigeria: 136 children kidnapped in Niger state, negotiations underway for their release
A Nigerian state government said it was negotiating with gunmen who seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at...
Nigeria: Reports of Boko Haram chief wounded in attack by rival group
By Camille Malplat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano In the 12 years since Nigeria's jihadist insurgency erupted in the...
Sahel: Unfolding humanitarian crisis in Niger with growing masses of refugees from Nigeria and from within
The United Nations warned Tuesday that bloodshed in northwestern Nigeria was fuelling an exodus into neighbouring...
Nigeria: As military leadership takes over, insurgents continue to stage attacks
At least 30 people were kidnapped and a dozen others killed in a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, witnesses...
Nigeria: Relief in Katsina after release of hundreds of kidnapped boys
Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram...
Nigeria: Chaos in Katsina after gunmen kidnapped more than 300 boys
Outrage is simmering in Nigeria after gunmen kidnapped hundreds of secondary school students, while the government...
Nigeria: Army attempt to raid ISWAP camp ends with death of 10 soldiers
Ten Nigerian troops were killed and one was taken hostage in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in northeast Nigerian...
Nigeria: Massacre in northeast Nigeria
A weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram jihadist group left at least 110 dead,...
‘Armed bandits’ kill 10 in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state
Armed assailants killed at least 10 civilians in attacks on two villages in a restive area of northern Nigeria,...
Nigeria: Borno state governor’s convoy attacked near Baga
Jihadists have attacked a convoy of a regional governor in Nigeria's restive northeast, just two days after a similar...
Insurgent attacks in Borno claim dozen lives
Jihadists aligned to the Islamic State have killed 11 villagers in two separate attacks in Nigeria's northeast Borno...
Nine troops killed in jihadist attack in Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Sept 2, 2020 - At least nine Nigerian troops were killed in an offensive by jihadists in northeast...
Boko Haram kill two, kidnap two in northeast Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Aug 29, 2020 - Boko Haram jihadists on horseback killed two men and seized two others when they...
Students kidnapped in Kaduna
Kano, Nigeria, Aug 25, 2020 - Gunmen have kidnapped seven students along with their female teacher from a secondary...
Nigerian villages are target of incessant attacks by bandits
Lagos, Aug 24, 2020 - More than 1,100 villagers have been killed this year by armed gangs in several states across...
Mass kidnapping in northeast Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Aug 19, 2020 - Jihadists have taken hundreds of hostages in a northeast Nigerian town where people had...
President Buhari recognizes Nigeria’s severe security problems
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a rare interview, on Friday acknowledged the scale of security problems in two...
Gunmen kill 14 villagers in central Nigeria
Lagos, July 29, 2020 - Gunmen killed 14 villagers in central Nigeria's Kogi state on Wednesday, police said, blaming...
Nigeria: Islamic State releases video showing execution of five Nigerian men
Jihadists have killed five aid workers abducted last month in restive northeast Nigeria, group Action Against Hunger...
At least 23 Nigerian troops killed in ambush in Jibia, Katsina state
Kano, Nigeria, July 19, 2020 - At least 23 Nigerian troops were killed when they were ambushed by a gang of so-called...
Nigeria: Borno state remains active area of insurgency with new ambush near Maiduguri
July 13, 2020 - Jihadists shot dead 10 Nigerian soldiers in two incidents in the country's restive northeast on...
Nigerian soldiers killed in ISWAP ambush in Borno
UPDATE July 9, 2020 - The death toll from a jihadist attack on a military convoy in northeast Nigeria has risen from...
Nigeria: Sea pirates strike again, kidnap Chinese sailors in the Gulf of Guinea
Five Chinese sailors were abducted by pirates last week from a cargo ship in Nigerian waters, the Chinese foreign...
Nigeria: Insurgents attack Damask, kill two civilians and damage UN helicopter
The United Nations on Saturday said two civilians including a five-year-old child were killed and an aid helicopter...
Four killed in Boko Haram attack on Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria, July 30, 2020 - Suspected jihadist fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri, one of the last safe...
Nigeria: Insurgents ambush convoy near Damboa, kill 11 people
Kano, Nigeria, June 28, 2020 - At least nine Nigerian soldiers and two members of a civil defence militia were killed...
Northern Nigeria braces for more violent insurgency
Kano, Nigeria, June 18, 2020 (By Aminu Abubakar and Celia Lebur in Lagos) - The attacks were swift and brutal: fleeing...
ISWAP strikes in Gubio LGA, Borno state
Kano, Nigeria, June 21, 2020 - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have killed six people in raids on herding...
ISWAP strikes in Nigerian state of Borno again, kills dozens
Kano, Nigeria, June 14, 2020 - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in the latest of a...