The Latest Breaking News from Boko Haram

A top Nigerian official says that armed gangs attacking remote communities in Nigeria’s troubled northwest are now working with extremist rebels who have waged a decade-long insurgency in the country’s northeast

Since its 2019 defeat, ISIL has morphed into a series of affiliates taking hold in Afghanistan and Africa’s Sahel belt.

Western sanctions on Russia and Belarus could push Nigeria to import more accessible and affordable Chinese armaments.

Armed gangs have been terrorising northwest Nigeria for years. But what does the catchall phrase ‘bandits’ encompass?

The men were found guilty of setting up a cell in the United Arab Emirates to raise funds for Boko Haram.

The United States imposed new sanctions on Friday targeting alleged arms dealers and companies it said were involved in procuring weapons for Myanmar's junta, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

At the age of 14, Halima Audu, was held captive at a Boko Haram camp where she witnessed several girls being sent to detonate explosives in crowded places such as markets. She said even a nine-year-old girl was sent on a suicide mission.

Armed raiders have kidnapped five people working for the French medical NGO Médecins sans frontières (MSF) in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent, with our African correspondents. In Nigeria, our reporter looks into how Boko Haram and ISWAP forces children into becoming child soldiers; and from Kenya, one hair stylist brings joy to her clients who are suffering…

In Cameroon’s Minawao refugee camp, young Nigerians use the game to help rebuild lives put in danger by Boko Haram

(This February 4 story deletes incorrect description of Boko Haram as an affiliate of Al Qaeda in paragraph 14; corrects number of Islamic State affiliates in West and Central Africa in paragraph 15; relationship between Islamic State West Africa Province and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in paragraph 17;…