The Latest Breaking News from Boko Haram

An attack by jihadist group Boko Haram killed around 40 Chadian troops overnight near the Nigerian border, prompting an army operation to hunt down the militants, the government and local sources said on Monday.

Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west

An unlikely friendship is budding between Budapest and N’Djamena with the goal of stemming migration to Europe.

For over a year now, authorities in Nigeria have been resettling people displaced by the fighting between government forces and Boko Haram, Islamic militants who launched an insurgency in 2009 with northeastern Borno state as the epicenter of the fighting

It’s the worst such flooding in the northeastern city of Maiduguri in 30 years, authorities say.

Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding.

Officials in northeastern Borneo say that a dam collapse has unleashed severe flooding that has prompted evacuations and has swept deadly reptiles from a zoo into communities in the area

Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes

Tragic Boko Haram attack in northeastern Nigeria underscores ongoing security crisis and the need for robust interventions to protect vulnerable communities.

Although no one has claimed the attack, Boko Haram are suspected to be behind a bombing which killed at least 16 people on Wednesday, the latest in a series of lethal attacks against civilians in the area.

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