Islamist extremists in Nigeria have killed a medical aid worker held hostage since March. Hauwa Mohammed Liman, 24, was killed by militants from a faction of Boko Haram after a deadline expired, authorities have said. Liman, a Nigerian who worked in...
Thousands of women and girls who believed they were being led to safety from Boko Haram by Nigerian security forces were instead systematically abused in exchange for food and assistance, an Amnesty International investigation has revealed. The shoc...
In Cameroon, a family dreams of the thousands of cows, sheep and goats its village used to have, inherited from their forebears. They dream of going home to the village they had to flee when Boko Haram moved in. A refugee camp run by the run by th...
The only Christian girl among the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month could have been freed along with her schoolmates but refused to renounce her faith, according to her mother. Leah Sharibu refused to accept Islam, resisting the...
Boko Haram has returned most of the schoolgirls it kidnapped last month to the village it abducted them from, according to relatives of the girls. Members of the radical militant group drove into Dapchi, a village in north-east Nigeria, and dropped...