Tag: boko haram

By Julia Payne ABUJA  - Nigerian government forces recaptured the northeastern city of Bama from Islamist Boko Haram insurgents, the army said on Monday, a significant victory for the government ...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS - African states want the United Nations to set up a trust fund to finance a force to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria and called ...

BEIRUT  - The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls tracts of Syria and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman ...

By Madjiasra Nako and Beau-Bernard Fonka Mutta N'DJAMENA/YAOUNDE  - Much of the Chadian force fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria has withdrawn to Cameroon and is deploying further south, Chadian soldiers ...