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25 May 2022

'Boko Haram' Massacre: At least 50 farmers killed in Nigeria’s Borno

Local residents believe it belongs to the Boko Haram militant group. A large number of boko haram militants came on motorbikes and started firing indiscriminately. Borno State have been ravaged by militant attacks since 2009.

Salman Khurshid

13 Nov 2021

Case against Congress' Salman Khurshid over 'Hindutva' remark in new book

Salman Khurshid is a former Union Minister A case has been filed against him under Sections 153, 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) In his book, Khurshid has reportedly compared Hindutva to radical terrorist groups

Abubakar Shekau

07 Jun 2021

Nigeria's Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau dead, confirms ISWAP militant group

Boko Haram`s leader was reported to have been killed on several occasions over the last 12 years The group has killed more than 30,000 people, forced around 2 million people to flee their homes and spawned one of the world`s worst humanitarian crises

United Nations Security Council

11 Jan 2021

India expresses concerns over acts of terrorism by Boko Haram in West Africa

India has expressed its concerns on acts of terrorism in West Africa at UNSC. Indian envoy pointed out to increased activities of Boko Haram and Islamic State's West Africa Province. TS Tirumurti was speaking at a security council meeting on West Africa and the Sahel region.

17 Dec 2020

DNA: 300 Nigerian students' abduction in terrorists attack

Insurgents from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed that on Tuesday, hundreds of boys from a school in the northern Katsina state of Nigeria were kidnapped in one of the biggest terror attacks.

19 Sep 2019

9 killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

Military sources who confirmed the attack said the incident occurred late on Wednesday in Aljilati Ngomari village, Xinhua news agency reported.

Nigeria government

28 Feb 2018

Nigeria sets up probe into girls' school attack, abductions

Nigeria's government has said it has set up a panel to investigate the abduction of 110 girls from their school last week by suspected members of the extremist Boko Haram group.

25 Feb 2018

Rome's Colosseum turned red to protest Pakistan blasphemy law

Rome`s ancient Colosseum was lit in red on Saturday in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a woman condemned to death under Pakistan`s blasphemy laws.

UN WFP aid convoy attack

18 Dec 2017

Four dead in ambush of World Food Programme convoy in Nigeria

Attacks on aid workers are relatively rare in the conflict with the Islamist insurgency, compared with assaults on the military and civilians in Nigeria`s northeast.

14 Dec 2017

Boko Haram tries to take over military base in northeast Nigeria

Boko Haram fighters battled Nigerian soldiers for about an hour as they tried to take over a military base, in the latest attack against troops in the restive northeast.

28 Nov 2017

Boko Haram founder`s home to become museum

Muhammad Yusuf, a charismatic Muslim preacher, founded the group in 2001 from his base in the Railway suburb of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.

26 Nov 2017

Suspected Boko Haram militants take over northeast Nigeria town: residents

Suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram took over a town in the restive state of Borno in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, residents said.

21 Nov 2017

At least 50 dead in Nigeria mosque bombing

At least 50 people were killed in a suicide bomb blast on Tuesday at a mosque in the northeastern town of Mubi, in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, police said.

19 Oct 2017

Boko Haram kills three soldiers in Nigeria: sources

At least three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram fighters ambushed a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security and civilian sources told AFP on Thursday.

14 Oct 2017

Boko Haram fighters surrender in northern Cameroon

Nearly 60 men who said they were captured by the Boko Haram Islamist group and forced to fight for them in Nigeria have surrendered to authorities in northern Cameroon.

13 Oct 2017

Nigeria jails 45 Boko Haram suspects in mass trial held in secret

Nigeria has convicted and jailed 45 Boko Haram suspects, the government said on Friday, the first sentences it has handed down in a set of mass trials that have drawn criticism for being held behind closed doors.

29 Sep 2017

Nigeria's Boko Haram trials to be held behind closed doors

The announcement that due process was finally to begin was given a cautious welcome but a ban on media access will likely raise concerns about transparency.

18 Sep 2017

Suicide bombers kill 15 in northeast Nigeria

The UN children's fund said last month that 83 children had been used as suicide bombers this year, four times as many as in all of 2016.

09 Sep 2017

Nigeria: Boko Haram kills seven in attack on displaced camp

The attack on Friday evening in Ngala, near the border with Cameroon, came as two people were killed in an explosion outside another camp in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.

05 Sep 2017

Boko Haram resurgence kills 381 civilians since April: Amnest

The insurgency has left more than 20,000 people dead since it began in 2009.

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