Michelle Faul
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 07:05
All 275 women, girls and children rescued from Boko Haram and taken to the safety of a northeast Nigerian refugee camp have been taken into military custody amid suspicions that some are aiding the Islamic extremists, a camp official and a Nigerian military intelligence officer said Wednesday.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 14:41
Ten generals and five other senior military officers have been found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, several Nigerian newspapers said Tuesday, though the military insisted there was no truth in the reports.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:57
Able-bodied men from the Nigerian town of Chibok have taken to the dangerous Sambisa Forest to search for more than 100 abducted girls and young women whom the military claimed to have freed from their Islamic extremist kidnappers, an education official said Thursday.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:34
Suspected Islamic militants set fire to locked dormitory, shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape. At least 58 killed.
Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 09:27
Extremists from three neighbouring countries are fighting in Nigeria's northeastern Islamic uprising, according to an alleged captured extremist whose account reinforces fears that one of Africa's most powerful Islamic militant groups is growing closer to al-Qaida affiliates and that radical movements are spilling across national boundaries.