New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday met the families of 11 Indians detained in Nigeria and assured that the Indian mission in Abuja was providing all necessary assistance.This information was tweeted by
Yaounde, Cameroon (AP): At least 20 bodies have been found in northern Cameroon's regional capital of Maroua after two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Wednesday in a busy marketplace and a popular neighborhood.Cameroon, which
Abuja: At least 49 people were killed and dozens injured by twin blasts that rocked a market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Gombe on Thursday, sources said.Forty-nine bodies were found at the scene of the
Maidugiri (Nigeria) : Boko Haram extremists gunned down nearly 150 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeast Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a government official and a self-defense fighter said Thursday.The attack
Abuja: Twenty villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters stormed a remote village in Nigeria's Borno state, shooting sporadically and razing houses, survivors said on Tuesday.Throats of some local residents were grisly slit by
Bauchi, Nigeria: Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria's biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said.It is the fourth suicide bombing this month in Maiduguri, which is
Niamey: Militants from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram crossed the border and attacked two towns in neighbouring Niger, setting homes ablaze and killing at least 40 people, a local government official said today.The attack
Abuja: At least 11 people were killed on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in Nigeria's city of Potiskum, hospital sources said.The attacks are suspected to be carried out by two Boko Haram suicide bombers,
Abuja: Nineteen people were killed when Boko Haram militants stormed a village in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, local residents said on Tuesday.The militants sieged the remote Huyum village Monday afternoon, shooting sporadically and indiscriminately
Maidugiri, Nigeria: Police say four suicide bomb attacks Saturday killed at least 54 people and wounded 143 in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri that is the birthplace of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.Police
Maiduguri (Nigeria): Witnesses say that a suicide bombing at market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri has killed as many as 20 people. The town had already been attacked in the early hours of this
Abuja: A suicide bombing has killed at least 25 people at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a media report said.Scores were wounded in the attack on Saturday, that followed an overnight assault
Nigeria (AP): Nigeria's military says it has destroyed 10 Boko Haram camps, killed many militants and captured heavy weaponry in the northeastern Sambisa Forest.This comes after a surge in attacks by the Islamic extremists including
Abuja (Nigeria): A group of 234 women and children were rescued by the Nigerian troops from the northeast Sambisa forest on Thursday, the military said on Saturday.National military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said in
LAGOS (Nigeria) : Nigeria's military has rescued 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram forest stronghold in the country's northeast, an announcement on social media said Saturday.It brings the number of females declared
Maiduguri (Nigeria): Nigerian troops rescued nearly 300 girls and women during an offensive Tuesday against Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Sambisa Forest, the military said, but they did not include any of the schoolgirls
Niamey, Niger: Suspected Boko Haram fighters in motorized canoes attacked a Niger army base on an island in Lake Chad, the body of water touching all four countries that have been targeted by Nigeria's Islamic
New Delhi: At least one new polio case has been detected in Pakistan's northwestern province, taking the number of cases found so far this year to 21.The Polio Virology Laboratory of the National Institute of
United Nations: Senior UN officials said on Monday that the Boko Haram militant group has been unable to disrupt the electoral process in Nigeria and following the involvement of regional forces in Nigeria, the area
Abuja: At least 10 people were killed in an attack carried out by the Boko Haram militants in a Nigeria-Cameroon border town in Borno state, a security source said Thursday.The attack was carried out in
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