Boko Haram

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May 7, 2017
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Five Boko Haram commanders were released in exchange for the freedom of 82 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped
October 13, 2016
Twenty-one of the schoolgirls who were captured by Boko Haram in 2014 have been freed, according to the Nigerian president's…
May 18, 2016
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers have found one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok, making her…
April 15, 2016
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — With marches, chants and prayers, Nigerians marked Thursday's painful second anniversary of the mass abduction of…
April 15, 2016
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — With marches, chants and prayers, Nigerians marked Thursday's painful second anniversary of the mass abduction of…
February 3, 2016
On November 13, 2015, ISIS members coordinated a bombing attack throughout France that brutally massacred 130 innocent souls from Paris to Saint-Denis. The world
February 2, 2016
DALORI, Nigeria (AP) — A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard…
November 18, 2015
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A night-time suicide bombing blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday…
April 29, 2015
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold…
March 1, 2015
A crowd beat to death a teenage girl accused of planning to be a suicide bomber and then set her…
February 11, 2015
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in
February 5, 2015
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Boko Haram fighters have shot or burned to death dozens of civilians in a border town
January 31, 2015
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in
January 12, 2015
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described…
January 12, 2015
On Saturday, a girl walked into a crowded market in Maiduguri, Nigeria. When she was stopped to be screened, the
December 25, 2014
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested
November 10, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A suicide bomber, disguised in a school uniform, set off explosives during a high school assembly in…
October 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - BBC News has a fascinating animated look at how three Nigerian girls escaped Boko Haram...
October 18, 2014
219 kidnapped girls to be freed by militant group Boko Haram according to ceasefire terms struck between the country’s government…
July 7, 2014
(AP) — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape,…