A leading rights group urged Nigeria's army on Tuesday to take responsibility for a drone strike that killed 39 civilians in January, calling for compensation for the victims and their families. The army eventually admitted ordering the strike near the town of Rukubi,...
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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 their release, fishermen and the head of an anti-jihadist militia told AFP Tuesday. The militants in eight boats stormed the fishing and herding...
Nigeria: New president starts job on shaky ground after nearly tripling fuel prices
By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos, Nigeria's megacity of some 20 million people, has long been a hellish affair, but a surge in petrol prices is making it even worse. Fuel prices have almost...
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 latest bloodshed in a region where separatist tensions often flare. Wednesday's attack on troops in Umunze area of Anambra state was condemned by the...
Nigeria: Campaigning for Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election begins
Campaigning for Nigeria's 2023 presidential election got off to a low-key start on Wednesday, with candidates holding a book launch and rallies or postponing official inaugurations. Five months before the ballot, four top candidates are emerging in a tight battle to...
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 nature of a 13-year conflict, caught between reconstruction and fighting that still rages beyond its borders. In September 2014, Boko Haram fighters...
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...
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