The Irish Times

Hunger is a constant for displaced communities in northeast Nigeria

About 2.4 million forced to leave their homes during 13-year-long war with Boko Haram

Sun Feb 06 2022 - 15:16

Boko Haram escapees now confronted by uncertain future

Closure of Nigerian camps leaving ex-militants struggling to survive and care for dependents

Sat Dec 04 2021 - 02:00

Boko Haram: The city compound for surrendered fighters

Nigerians close to camp fearful as terrorist extremists defect and claim changed ways

Sun Sept 26 2021 - 17:17

Boko Haram leader killed on direct orders of Isis, says rival group

Abubakar Shekau was one of world’s most infamous leaders of an Islamist terror group

Mon Jun 07 2021 - 17:58

The ‘crazy’ battlefield death of Chad’s French-backed strongman Déby

Brutal and kleptocratic ruler was West’s greatest African ally in fight against extremism

Fri Apr 23 2021 - 11:04

Niger’s president awarded $5m leadership prize

Mahamadou Issoufou is first winner of Ibrahim foundation prize since 2017

Mon Mar 08 2021 - 13:44

‘Beaten with guns’: Freed Nigerian schoolgirls recount kidnap ordeal

Gunmen release all 279 girls abducted last week from boarding school in northwest of country

Tue Mar 02 2021 - 16:57

Over 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys are released

Authorities say the boys had been abducted by bandits affiliated with Boko Haram

Fri Dec 18 2020 - 16:59

Hundreds of boys missing after attack on school in northern Nigeria

Incident echoes previous kidnapping in April 2014 when 276 schoolgirls were abducted

Mon Dec 14 2020 - 18:37

Search for Africa’s 44,000 ‘disappeared’ complicated by pandemic

Red Cross warns that once-common strategies to reunite families no longer possible

Wed Aug 26 2020 - 18:20

At least 10,000 died in military detention in Nigeria – report

Amnesty International publishes study into detainees during Boko Haram insurgency

Wed May 27 2020 - 17:42

Two girls carry out deadly bombing outside northeast Nigerian mosque

Boko Haram group is known to use children, particularly kidnapped girls, as bombers

Mon Jan 27 2020 - 20:07

NGO removed from Nigeria’s northeast in aid crackdown

Action Against Hunger accused by military of giving Islamic insurgents drugs and food

Fri Sept 20 2019 - 18:34

Nigerian children targeted by both Boko Haram and army

Thousands of child suspects held in dangerous conditions as Boko Haram war continues

Wed Sept 18 2019 - 19:56

Nigerian militia frees 900 children used in war on Boko Haram

Unicef says the total number of children now freed is more than 1,700

Fri May 10 2019 - 19:59

Nigeria bolsters security on eve of presidential election

Past votes in Africa’s largest democracy marred by violence, intimidation and rigging

Fri Feb 15 2019 - 19:58

Nigeria’s election brings dual crises back to polls: corruption and Boko Haram

Buhari is in last throes of bruising re-election campaign

Wed Feb 13 2019 - 18:33

Cameroon’s leader warns separatists after children kidnapped

Paul Biya says separatists must lay down their weapons after 79 schoolchildren seized

Tue Nov 06 2018 - 15:33

Obama joins South Africans in marking centenary of Mandela’s birth

Former US president urges African leaders to pursue change and to address corruption

Wed Jul 18 2018 - 14:47

Cameroon in turmoil as leader holds on to power after 36 years

President Paul Biya, who lives part of the time in Switzerland, may seek re-election

Mon Jul 16 2018 - 10:24

‘Abandoned in captivity’: Chibok kidnappings cast long shadow

More than 1,000 children taken by Boko Haram since start of Nigerian conflict in 2009

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 01:00

Boko Haram issues threat as it returns abducted schoolgirls

‘Don’t ever put your daughters in school again,’ extremists tell residents of Dapchi

Wed Mar 21 2018 - 19:33

Two girls killed and 76 rescued after Boko Haram attack

Nigerian military intervenes after Islamist group attack in northeastern village of Dapchi

Thu Feb 22 2018 - 10:46

Suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria kills at least 50

Attack bears hallmarks of Boko Haram faction that targets civilians

Tue Nov 21 2017 - 15:46

Woman (37) involved in money laundering gets suspended sentence

Accused opened 7 credit union accounts to withdraw money lodged from UK using ‘compromised’ cards

Wed Nov 01 2017 - 20:54

Boko Haram conflict leaves humanitarian crisis in its wake

Islamist group’s insurgency has left millions displaced in northern Nigeria

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 01:00

‘My father was shot by his friend’: the children of Boko Haram

Islamist terror group has abducted 10,000 children with some handed over by parents

Fri Aug 25 2017 - 20:27

Nigeria’s Boko Haram-fighting vigilantes losing heart

Accused of abuses and deployment of child soldiers, CJTF volunteers are giving up fight

Mon Aug 07 2017 - 17:09

Escaping Boko Haram: The mother who hid her child in a ditch for nine months

Nigerian woman describes the moment the violent militias arrived in her home town

Sat Jul 22 2017 - 01:00

Inside the headquarters of Boko Haram’s former caliphate

Former captives describe brutal executions and militants celebrating suicide bombings

Wed Jul 12 2017 - 01:00

A week of bombings in the birthplace of Boko Haram

Conflict sponsored by Islamist group changes from military assaults to guerrilla tactics

Fri Jun 30 2017 - 01:00

Girls released by Boko Haram arrive in Nigerian capital

Schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 freed in exchange for several militant commanders

Sun May 07 2017 - 19:41

Future of Somalia lies in hands of African forces

Funding to Amisom is being cut even as more is being given to UN peacekeeping missions

Mon Apr 17 2017 - 01:00

Key Boko Haram camp captured by Nigerian army, president says

Capture marks ‘final crushing’ of group in their last enclave in Sambisa forest

Sat Dec 24 2016 - 13:29