This brief establishes, on legal and evidentiary grounds, that ongoing atrocities committed by Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani ...

Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamist terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to an audio message purported to be from Boko Haram’s leader ...

On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in Konduga town, about 25 km southeast of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in ...

We already suffered at the hands of Boko Haram before now and we are still suffering at the hands of the government. – Aisha, displaced person in Gubio camp, Borno State, Nigeria, April 2022[1] Since ...

Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group already blamed for numerous horrific attacks in West Africa, posted a graphic video online Monday showing the apparent beheadings of two men who the group said ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Eric G. Berman, director of the Small Arms Survey from 2016 to 2019 and formerly ...

The Niger army on Thursday said that it had killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, where the country borders Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. Bakura was killed during a ...

A brutal overnight attack by Boko Haram militants has left more than 60 people dead in a village in Nigeria's Borno state. The assault took place on Friday in Darul Jamal -- a community in the Bama ...

After declaring in 2015 that the extremist group Boko Haram had been defeated, the Nigerian government said on Sunday that 110 girls are missing after Boko Haram militants stormed a school in the ...

Aisha Muhammed was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she had the convulsions and high blood pressure of eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal death. Her village's only health clinic had no ...