Nigeria

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.

Quite apart from the gruesome activities IS, the similarly-motivated Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is spreading terror into neighbouring Cameroon.

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.

One in every 50 migrants who try to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea will die on the journey. What is so terrible in their home countries to force people into such a desperate voyage?

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.

Nigeria has today been declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation. The country’s swift reaction has saved many lives, but could not help the doctor who stemmed the outbreak.

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.

A traffic officer in Nigeria has been throwing some shapes while “directing traffic” in Abuja. But from the looks of the footage, his moves are of little more than entertainment value.

The first Briton to get Ebola is flown into London for treatment, as the death toll rises to 1,427 people. Channel 4 News speaks to the man who discovered Ebola and charts the spread of the disease.