With the group's takeover of the country, concerns that a similar shift in power swinging towards the Boko Haram group in Nigeria is rising.
Lost in the glut of Donald Trump’s campaigning free falling and ISIS is the very dangerous terrorist organization Boko Haram. Recently, 21 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago were returned, but via a prisoner exchange in Nigeria.
The world stood in horror after details that the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped well over 200 schoolgirls from the Chibok region in Nigeria in 2014. Details are still developing but the first of the 219 girls that were captured has been found in the African nation by civilians searching the area near where the […]
Boko Haram and their ongoing reign of terror across West Africa and beyond has been a thorn in the side against opponents of the group on the continent. In a new report from The United Nations Children’s Fund, better known as UNICEF, the terrorist organization has been employing children to carry out deadly bomb attacks.
According to a surviving victim of Boko Haram’s latest reported strike, the extremist group unleashed perhaps its most brutal attack to date. Children were among those burned alive as the terrorist collective torched Dalori village Saturday (Jan. 2), killing 86 people.
The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has unleashed a series of attacks across Nigeria Sunday night into Monday morning that has left an indeterminable number of people dead. This wave of attacks has also left over 100 persons injured, many of them said to be women and children.
Officials are looking the criminals responsible a bomb blast in the Nigerian city of Yola that has reportedly killed thirty-two people and injured eighty others. No one has stepped forward but many believe it is the work of terrorist group Boko Haram, who has killed hundreds of people in the area this year, not to […]
In the ongoing struggle between the Nigerian military and the insurgent Boko Haram forces, recent news surfaced that the Islamist extremist group killed over 160 people in Northeast Nigeria. The Nigerian Army denies those claims, which comes after the army’s claims of arresting top Boko Haram leaders also coming under question.
On Monday, the Nigerian Army says it has freed 178 people, mostly women and children, from the clutches of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. The army raided a Boko Haram stronghold in Borno State on Sunday, the main staging area for the clashes in the African nation.
Some 214 out of 234 Nigerian girls rescued from a Boko Haram camp in the Sambosa Forrest are pregnant, the United Nations said Monday (May 4). The girls are being screened for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Nigerian Armed Forces made a successful grab of close to 300 women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Troops rescued 200 women and 93 girls from the Sambisa Forest Tuesday (April 29), officials confirmed.
Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 2,000 women and girls in Nigeria over the last year, says a 90-page report released by human right’s organization Amnesty International Tuesday (April 14). The figure is an estimate compiled in part from interviews with several witnesses, the actual number could be much higher.
