A group of missing Black and Latino girls in Washington D.C. has been met with unsatisfactory media coverage. To make matters worse, D.C. police are claiming the teenagers are likely to be runaways, not victims of violent crime. A police spokesperson told TMZ they believe all of missing the girls are runaways based on the circumstances […]

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When news broke that 200 girls were rescued from Boko Haram terror camps, many believed that the #BringBackOurGirls movement had taken a positive turn. However, according to reports, the girls who were rescued by Nigerian troops were not the ones kidnapped from the school in Chibok last April. “We have no idea where the Chibok […]

Twenty-seven captives imprisoned by militant group Boko Haram were released Saturday in Cameroon. Among the former hostages were 10 Chinese workers who were kidnapped on May 16 from a construction camp, and the wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, who was kidnapped July 27 around Kolofata. According to government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakari, the Cameroon […]

Survivors from Nigeria’s biggest massacre to date have spoken out against Boko Haram, describing how the militant group killed over 2,000 women and children “like insects.” The attacks began when the terror group took over Baga, a town near the northeastern front of Nigeria. After creating a military base, the group rampaged the villagers, launching rocket-propelled grenades and assault […]

Nigeria has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, but a human rights lawyer is arguing the men were justified in not going on what would have been an ill-advised suicidal mission with little weapons. The soldiers, all between the ages of 21 and 25, joined the army […]

Boko Haram, the Islamist group responsible for the kidnapping of over 200 girls in Nigeria, have seized over 3 towns in northeast Nigeria, including Chibok, the town where the kidnapping occurred. A priest whose daughter and niece were a part of the kidnapping told CNN: Boko Haram has taken over Chibok and we have all fled. They are […]

Dozens were injured, at least 47 fatally, when a suicide bomber disguised as a student set off an explosion outside a school in northern Nigeria Monday. The school bombing occurred around 7:50 a.m. outside of the principal’s office. Students had just gathered for a daily speech when the explosion went off. Police suspect that Boko Haram, […]

Hopes of progress were ruined over the weekend, when Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau announced the 219 Nigerian schoolgirls remaining in their captivity have been married off against their will. Shekau released the video on Friday night, debunking news reports that the terrorist group reached a truce with Nigerian officials. In the chilling tape, Shekau boasts about […]

Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group responsible for kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, has now abducted 30 boys and girls from a village in northeast Nigeria. The group, who reportedly struck a ceasefire with Nigerian officials, were expected to release the schoolgirls in October. They have not yet delivered on that promise and a […]

The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants six months ago may be released, according to the country’s military. Friday saw the African nation and the Islamist militants reach a cease-fire agreement that included the release of the more than 200 young girls that were kidnapped when they attacked a school in the north-eastern town of Chibok […]

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A vigilante group in Nigeria told reporters Thursday that Boko Haram kidnapped around 100 boys and men from a remote town in northeastern Nigeria on August 10th. Boko Haram attacked the town of Doron Baga in Nigeria’s Borno state on Sunday, killing 10 people and kidnapping dozens more. Hassan Ibrahim, a member of the local Nigerian vigilante […]