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Ignoring Boko Haram could be Nigeria’s greatest mistake
Goodluck Jonathan has acted as if Boko Haram is a minor irritant rather than an existential threat. It may be his greatest misjudgment.
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Fighters from the Islamist group Boko Haram launch a second attack on the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
In the run up to the general elections in Nigeria – British Nigerians tell Channel 4 News that they feel a strong national identity – even though the country still remains divided at home.
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram launch an assault on the Borno state capital Maiduguri which government forces say they have repelled.
Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state to revive the memory of northern Nigeria’s Muslim empires, but for those in its the region life has become a litany of killings, kidnappings and hunger.
Cameroon’s army says it has freed 24 of the hostages kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram at the weekend – an attack in which 80 people were taken including 50 children.
Goodluck Jonathan has acted as if Boko Haram is a minor irritant rather than an existential threat. It may be his greatest misjudgment.
The attack, thought to be the deadliest in Boko Haram’s history, saw the town largely razed to the ground as hundreds and possibly as many as two thousand civilians were killed.
One refugee fled through three miles of bodies from a Boko Haram attack, one thousand fled to an island on Lake Chad, and an Archbishop is demanding the West responds as it did to the Paris attacks.
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram group has killed at least 100 civilians in the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria. Some reports suggest the death toll could be as high as 2,000.
Dozens of Nigerian boys are killed and 79 injured by a suicide bomber dressed as a student at a school assembly.
Children captured by the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram are being forced into helping military operations, according to a handful of children who were either released or escaped.
Six months after 200 girls were kidnapped in Nigeria, Australian hostage negotiator Stephen Davis tells Channel 4 News he is “stunned” that Boko Haram forces have not been targeted by military forces.
More than 60 women and girls abducted by the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram two weeks ago have returned home, officials say.
Nigeria’s neighbouring countries are ready to launch a “total war on Boko Haram”, the terrorist group responsible for the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, the president of Chad says.
Ten people are unaccounted for after militants, suspected to be from terrorist group Boko Haram, attack a plant in northern Cameroon.