A businessman suspected of being head of the Boko Haram intelligence network that helped abduct more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in April has been arrested by Nigerian troops, according to the military. Two women were also arrested, one of whom was accused of coordinating payments to other operatives. According to Reuters: Defense spokesman Major-General […]
Health authorities struggling to control the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa warn that the spread of the crisis is unprecedented, calling it the largest outbreak in history. On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 390 deaths were caused by the outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, adding that drastic action is needed to prevent even […]
Nigerian security forces are investigating the mass kidnapping of more than 90 people — 60 women and girls and 31 schoolboys — from villages south of Maiduguri, the capital state of Borno. The kidnapping, suspected to be carried out by Boko Haram militants, occurred between Thursday and Saturday. The newest mass abduction comes just two […]
At least 50 are dead after gunmen in two minibuses stormed a town on Kenya’s coast and shot soccer fans watching a World Cup match in a television hall, officials said on Monday. The gunmen, suspected to be members of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group, also targeted two hotels, a police post and a bank in the […]
Militants belonging to the Islamic rebel group Boko Haram stormed three villages in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, killing at least 200 civilians and terrorizing residents. Witnesses say the military failed to intervene, although they were warned that an attack was imminent. From the Associated Press: A community leader who witnessed the killings on Monday said residents […]
On Monday, Nigerian officials banned the “Bring Back Our Girls” protests over the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls in the capital city of Abuja, claiming the demonstrations pose a security threat. The Commissioner of Police in Federal Capital Territory (FTC), Mr Joseph Mbu, announced the ban at a news conference in Abuja, saying the protests were posing a […]
On Monday, a Nigerian official confirmed that the military knows the whereabouts of the missing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram rebels in April. The official, however, said the military could not disclose the location and will not use force to rescue them. Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said that “the good […]
Islamist militants from the rebel group Boko Haram have reportedly dropped demands for the release of top commanders in exchange for the girls they kidnapped from a Nigerian school in April. However, a source close to the group says they are in talks with the Nigerian government to release up to half of the kidnapped girls in […]
Officials in Nigeria say President Goodluck Jonathan has called off a visit to the town where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Islamist militants from the rebel group Boko Haram. Sources told the BBC that President Jonathan would stop in Chibok on his way to a conference in France, but the threat of Boko Haram militants and a […]
As awareness about the nearly 300 girls kidnapped from their secondary school in northeast Nigeria intensifies, the most unlikely of groups is speaking out against the actions of Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group responsible for the mass abduction. Islamist militants from groups like Al-Qaeda are condemning the actions of Boko Haram, suggesting that the […]
The number of Nigerian girls abducted in a second kidnapping carried out by Boko Haram has been pushed from eight to 11, according to the NY Times. Men suspected of being fighters from the radical group Boko Haram kidnapped 11 more girls in Nigeria’s northeast, local officials said Tuesday, an intensification of its campaign against female education […]
It’s been three weeks since members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, dressed in Nigerian military uniforms, stormed an all-girls secondary school and kidnapped nearly 300 students, disappearing into a nearby forested area. For three weeks the world has watched, outraged at the lack of response from other nations and the boldness of Boko […]
