Security

A terror group affiliated to Al-Qaeda attacked Côte d’Ivoire weeks back. The same had happened in Mali earlier on. Those West African countries have joined Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger in feeling the impacts of religious […]

THE prayers of Gyang Dahoro take on a decidedly political note. A dozen local chiefs, resplendent in traditional Nigerian dress, nod approvingly as he calls for protection from the “terrorists” who have “made us refugees […]

Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against the Boko Haram group that has repeatedly targeted his home town in remote northern Cameroon. While the […]

Long after the last militant has been annihilated and the final suicide bomb exploded, the effects of Boko Haram’s terror tactics in Nigeria’s north-east will still be seen and felt. And not just in the […]

An Egyptian hijacker who forced a domestic flight to land in Cyprus used a fake suicide belt, officials said. His motives remain unclear but the Cypriot president said the incident was not terrorism-related. Footage released […]

U.S. Capitol Police shot a Tennessee man Monday afternoon after he pulled out what appeared to be a weapon at the Capitol Visitor Center, law enforcement officials said. A female civilian bystander was injured by […]

Authorities in Mali have arrested two men believed to be linked to an al Qaeda attack on a beach resort town in neighbouring Ivory Coast that killed 19 people earlier this month, military officials said […]

A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians. More […]

When a U.S. special operations team suddenly surrounded the car carrying the Islamic State’s second in command, he was given the split-second option of surrendering. Instead, he began firing. “He made a bad choice,” a […]

Nigeria has accused 300 firms and individuals, including army officers, of embezzling 48 billion naira ($241.45 million) through overpaid defense contracts or fraud, the presidency said on Thursday in a widening a crackdown on graft. […]

A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, […]

Sixteen women have been abducted in a fresh attack by suspected Boko Haram members in Adamawa State. The member, representing Michika/Madagali Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Adamu Kamale, confirmed the abduction to […]

Boko Haram has been driven out of most of its bases in northern Nigeria but in the past year, it has moved across the border to Chad. The BBC’s Thomas Fessy met one family who […]

Troops have killed 58 Boko Haram fighters in the latest military operation in Borno State, spokesman of the Army Col. Sani Usman, said yesterday Two hand grenades, 52 motorcycles, several bags of foodstuff were also […]

Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on Tuesday slammed President Obama and his polices, including the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, following the deadly Brussels terror bombings for which the Islamic State is now […]

On Tuesday 9 February, two Nigerian girls entered a camp for displaced people in the country’s north-east. Minutes later they detonated their explosive vests, killing 58 people. A third girl refused to take part in […]

The International Criminal Court has found former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Central African Republic more than a decade ago. The verdicts announced on Monday […]

The death toll in Wednesday’s two suicide bombings, which targeted a mosque in a Borno village, has risen to 27, an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday. NEMA Northeast coordinator Mohammed Kanar the […]

Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death, local media report. They were convicted on terror charges by a military court for their roles in several attacks in Cameroon’s […]