Tag: Borno

At least 30 people were killed in Nigeria’s Borno region after suspected Boko Haram Islamists set trucks carrying passengers ablaze, eyewitnesses and residents told...

Twenty soldiers were killed and nearly 1 000 people left homeless after a militant attack on a town in north-eastern Nigeria, residents and a...

At least 30 people were killed in the Nigerian state Borno after an improvised explosive device detonated on a bridge, sources told Reuters. The...

At least 65 people died in an attack by suspected Islamists on a group returning from a funeral in Nigeria’s Borno region, state television...

Islamist insurgents overran a Nigerian army base in the north-east, killing at least the commander, two Nigerian security sources said. Militants took a Nigerian army...

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed at least 13 people in an attack on a market in the town of Biu in...

Cholera is fast spreading through camps housing people displaced by Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria's Borno state, the United Nations said. Most...

Three female suicide bombers killed two people and injured six others in an attack on a village in Nigeria's Borno state, a...

A third of 743 health facilities have been destroyed in north-east Nigeria's Borno state, the area worst hit in a seven-year insurgency...

Hundreds of Nigerians who fled Boko Haram in north-east Borno State have returned to devastated towns and villages in recent days after...

Hundreds of people displaced by a Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria's north-east staged a protest in the region's main city on Thursday...

A multinational task force battling Boko Haram said it had recaptured the only town in north-east Nigeria's Borno state still held by...

The United Nations has temporarily suspended aid deliveries in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno, the former stronghold of jihadists Boko Haram, after...

At least 36 people have been killed in multiple suicide attacks in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state at a mosque and a residential...

At least 80 people were killed and about 150 injured in multiple bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state on Sunday according...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device strapped on her body near a market in the northeastern Nigerian State of Borno, killing...

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents rounded up and shot dead dozens of people in a raid in a town in north-east Nigeria on...

A bomb blast hit a cattle market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late on Saturday, with as many as 16 people...

Authorities in Nigeria's northeast Borno state denied on Thursday a statement by the armed forces which had said most of the more...

Nigeria's northeasterly Borno state has ordered all of its schools to shut to protect children after Islamists killed dozens of pupils in...

Islamist insurgents have killed at least 31 people in a village in northeast Nigeria, a lawmaker said on Monday, taking the death...

Gunmen from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group attacked the northeastern town of Bama on Wednesday, opening fire on a school, shooting or...

Islamist group Boko Haram attacked the house of an army general in northeast Nigeria's Borno state overnight, killing one of the soldiers...

Niger has arrested about 20 Boko Haram Islamist militants from neighboring Nigeria who are suspected of planning attacks in Niger's south east,...

Nigeria's military said on Tuesday it had killed 40 Islamist militants while repelling a coordinated attack in three parts of northeastern Borno...

A radical Islamist sect behind almost daily attacks in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno said it would not open dialogue...