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May 25, 2017
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia hospital says its staff has successfully delivered sextuplets and the three boys and three…
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 22, 2016
In 2007, Taofick Okoya founded a Nigerian brand of dolls called Queens of Africa with the idea of empowering young
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…
December 7, 2015
LONDON (AP) — A British judge has sentenced a husband and wife who kept a man as a slave for
November 18, 2015
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A night-time suicide bombing blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday…
July 30, 2015
OPINION - President Obama just completed an historic trip to Kenya, his ancestral home and the land of his father’s…
July 18, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Nigerian-American rapper Jidenna came under fire recently when he made comments suggesting that he was perceived as…
May 3, 2015
theGrio REPORT - This weekend, Lauryn Hill sent a special message to Nigerians due to her inability to make it…
April 29, 2015
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold…
April 9, 2015
ELMONT, New York (AP) — Nigerian-born Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan — he would apply to…
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…