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Nigeria's Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children since 2013: UN
The agency said it had documented more than 1,000 verified cases, the first time it had published an estimated tally. But the actual number could be much larger, it added.
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Nigeria plans to negotiate for release of 110 abducted Dapchi girls
The kidnapping is one of the largest since the jihadist group Boko Haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok in 2014.
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UN halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said it had suspended its work in Rann following the attack and evacuated both national and international staff.
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Buhari vows to crush Boko Haram after mass kidnapping
More than one hundred girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
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‘No missing girls rescued’ after Boko Haram attack
On Wednesday, the government of the north-eastern state, where the girls’ village of Dapchi is located, told locals that 76 schoolgirls feared missing had been rescued.
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Nigerian military rescues some missing schoolgirls after Boko Haram attack
More than 90 schoolgirls were reportedly feared missing after the attack on the village of Dapchi in the north-eastern state of Yobe.
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Sources: Over 90 schoolgirls feared missing after Boko Haram attack
Their disappearance, if confirmed, would be one of the largest since Boko Haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014.
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Nigeria convicts 205 Boko Haram suspects in mass trials
More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes since the insurgency began.
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Boko Haram militants hand over 13 hostages to Nigerian govt
The kidnappings were part of a campaign of attacks last year by the jihadist group whose bid to create an Islamic state in the northeast.
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Boko Haram suspects go on public trial in Niger
The Islamist insurgency has spread beyond its roots in Nigeria, killing 20,000 and uprooting nearly 3 million in the Lake Chad region.
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Nigerian air force killed dozens in attacks on villages – Amnesty
The report is the latest challenge to the military on human rights and the attacks suggest a deadly crisis between herders and farmers is spiralling out of government control.
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Northern Nigeria raises safety concerns following latest suicide bombing
On Wednesday, 11 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque at Gamboru town in the Gamboru-Ngala local government area of Borno state.
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Four dead in ambush of World Food Programme convoy in Nigeria
Attacks on aid workers are relatively rare in the conflict with the Islamist insurgency, compared with assaults on the military and civilians in Nigeria’s northeast.
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Suicide bomber kills 13 others in northeast Nigerian city - police official
The evening attack, which also injured five people, struck the city’s Muna Garage area, Damian Chukwu, a police commissioner, told Reuters.
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Chad withdraws troops from fight against Boko Haram in Niger
There was no immediate explanation or comment from defence officials in Chad.
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More than half of schools in Boko Haram’s region are shut, Unicef says
It has embroiled the region in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with at least 10.7 million people in need of assistance, according to the UN.
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Suspected Boko Haram members kill 18 people in northeast Nigeria
The attack on the town, which sits on the border with Cameroon, is the latest in a string of deadly Boko Haram raids and bombings.
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No vehicular movement allowed in Maiduguri during Muslim holiday
Police PR officer Victor Isuku said the restriction would be applied to the use of cars, tricycles, bicycles and animals - until after the Eid congregational prayer on 1 September.
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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in Cameroon
Suspected Boko Haram militants sprayed a village in remote Cameroon with automatic fire, killing 15 people and kidnapping eight others, officials said.
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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in Cameroon
Many people fled the village for a camp near Kolofata that houses thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence, he said.
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Unicef: Boko Haram child bombings in Nigeria quadrupled in 2017
Eighty-three children had been used as bombers since 1 January, 2017, Unicef said.
