ISLAMIST extremists have killed nine people and injured four in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Borno. The attack was carried out by Boko Haram militants on the Malam Fatori community, Borno Governor ...

Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap), one of the most powerful global affiliates of the Islamic State jihadist organisation, is in the middle o ...

Amnesty International Nigeria has strongly condemned the killing of at least 15 people by suspected Lakurawa insurgents in ...

In May 2014, the United Nations Security Council listed Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation. Three years earlier, the Gaji ...

Conflict in north-eastern Nigeria has forced many people into displacement camps. Akintunde Akinleye / EPA. The third factor that could explain Iswap’s resurgence is that it has been using ...