Adam Nossiter
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 06:12
A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria’s northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country’s troubled government, which had been hoping to showcase its emergence as Africa’s largest economy this week but instead has been forced to confront its failure to contain a growing insurgency in its north.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 09:47
Hundreds of protesters marched in the streets of the Nigerian capital on Wednesday, demanding that the government do more to find scores of schoolgirls abducted by armed militants more than two weeks ago.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 09:32
Is Al Qaeda’s regional affiliate in West Africa dead, at least for now?
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 10:48
Militants struck near the heart of the Nigerian state early Monday, bombing a bus station in the capital, Abuja, just miles from the seat of government in one of the worst attacks in years in the country’s struggle with insurgents.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 07:53
The human rights group Amnesty International said Monday that it had satellite images suggesting mass graves in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, following what witnesses have described as the large-scale execution of inmates by security forces at a military prison on March 14.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 09:23
Africa’s deadliest terror group, Boko Haram, is an enigma wrapped in a paradox. The enigma is that it rarely acknowledges either deeds or goals while killing hundreds of Nigerian civilians. The paradox is that even as it makes itself more feared and hated, its strength appears to increase.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 12:45
Dozens were killed, including many children watching a soccer match, in a series of deadly bomb blasts in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, officials said.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:05
After herding the female students into a classroom, Islamist militants from the group Boko Haram fatally burned or shot dozens of male students in an attack late Monday on a state college in northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 08:49
Gunmen stormed a village in northeastern Nigeria late Sunday afternoon, shooting down traders and shoppers and killing at least 45 people on a busy market day, the police and witnesses said on Monday. The attack was one of the deadliest yet to be attributed to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 13:58
Cheers broke out in the National Assembly building here on Monday as representatives chose the mayor of this beleaguered capital to serve as the interim president of the Central African Republic, a country in the grip of a sectarian civil war.