Maryam Ali Maiyanga stepped onto the balcony of her university dorm, phone to her cheek, listening for the voice of a sister who had been missing for almost 10 years. The 26-year-old college ...

Commemorations have been held in Nigeria 10 years since Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls, some of whom are still unaccounted for. The Trump Trial’s Extraordinary Opening 27 On-Set ...

was one of 276 schoolgirls taken in 2014 Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children 10 years after she was abducted by Boko Haram militants when she was a schoolgirl in ...

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — The Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamic group Boko Haram a decade ago. Lydia Simon was rescued along with ...

The Islamist group Boko Haram seized 276 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014 Most of the Chibok girls abducted 10 years ago in Nigeria are now free but some feel badly let down. Some 200 ...

Terrorism is "resilient" but the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been defeated militarily, Nigeria’s army chief Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai has told BBC Hardtalk. Speaking last Thursday he ...

Founded in the northeastern city of Maiduguri around 2002, Boko Haram aims to overthrow the Nigerian government and establish an Islamic state. The group is known by several different names but ...

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint.

But when others call her boy “Son of Boko Haram”, or when she fears he will be ostracised because of what her captors did to her 10 years ago, it hurts. “For me, I don’t mind, but if I ...