Boko Haram

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December 30, 2022
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok community and forcefully abducted girls.
June 20, 2022
Mourners paid their respects to victims killed at St. Francis Catholic Church on June 5 as church leaders urged authorities…
January 22, 2022
The militants targeted a church and Christians when they stormed Pemi on Thursday, according to local leader Hassan Chibok.
May 19, 2021
Two young women who were abducted as girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram have graduated with bachelors degrees.
March 2, 2021
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state…
February 28, 2021
After more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a government school in Nigeria last week, worried parents gathered at the…
December 20, 2020
Many of the more than 300 schoolboys worry about returning to school, saying captors threatened them with death.
December 17, 2020
More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in Nigeria have been released, the Katsina state governor said…
December 14, 2020
The attack on an all-boys school in Katsina, on the northwest of Nigeria, resulted in the disappearance of hundreds of…
November 29, 2020
Nigeria's government has buried 43 farmers who were victims of a gruesome massacre by suspected Islamist militants. More are feared…
April 16, 2020
Nicole Duncan-Smith, a member of Bring Back Our Girls, USA, urges the world not to forget the 112 Nigerian young…
Tanitoluwa Adewumi becomes chess champion. (Russ Makofsky/GoFundMe) thegrio.com
March 25, 2019
The homeless boy who captured the heart of a nation after securing the New York state chess champion title despite
October 23, 2018
The new HBO documentary Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, sheds a light on the mass kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian…
Mark Zuckerberg thegrio.com
April 11, 2018
Top stories for April 11, 2018 include what Black America stands to lose amidst the Facebook controversy, what rescued Boko…
March 25, 2018
More than 100 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in February have been reunited with their parents in northern…
Nigeria Boko Haram thegrio.com
March 21, 2018
Boko Haram extremists returned almost all of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with…
BOKO HARAN THEGRIO.COM
February 27, 2018
This marks the largest kidnapping of young women since Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from a school in Chibok nearly…
Boko Haram tehgrio.com
February 22, 2018
On Wednesday, the Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others after a Boko Haram attack.
Boko Haram #BringBackOurGirls thegrio.com
February 22, 2018
The top stories for February 22, 2018 range from more Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria to Trump proposing arming teachers…
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February 21, 2018
An attack by Boko Haram extremists in a northern Nigerian town has left approximately 50 girls missing. The town is…