HARUNA UMAR

People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Joshua Olatunji)
‘Water is flooding everywhere’ as torrential rains sweep through West and Central Africa
As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region.
 
Bodies of people killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist extremists are transported for burial, in Tarmuwa, northeast Nigeria, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Abu)
Boko Haram militants on motorcycles attacked a Nigerian village, killing over 100, residents say
Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes.
 
FILE - An injured victim of a suicide bomb attack receives treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on June 30, 2024. Recent suicide bombings in northeastern Nigeria have raised questions about the country's claim that it has degraded the Islamic extremists whose insurgency since 2009 has killed more than 35,000 people directly and displaced more than 2 million. (AP Photo/Joshua Omiri, File)
Nigeria claims it has degraded extremists. New suicide bombings suggest they remain potent
Recent suicide bombings in northeastern Nigeria have raised questions about the country’s claim that it has degraded extremists whose insurgency since 2009 has killed more than 35,000 people directly and displaced more than 2 million.
 
Injured victims of a suicide bomb attack receive treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured, including 19 seriously, in coordinated attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gwoza on Saturday, local authorities said, raising security concerns in a region which has been at a center of Islamist insurgency. (AP Photo/Joshua Omiri)
Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack in Nigeria, authorities say
Authorities in northern Nigeria say female suicide bombers have targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks that killed at least 18 people. Another 30 people were wounded in Sunday’s blasts.
 
Women and children who were held captive by islamic extremists, and rescued by the Nigerian army, are seen upon arrival in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, May 20, 2024. Hundreds of hostages mostly children whose mothers were held captive and forcefully married by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from their key forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the West African nation's army said late Monday. (AP Photo/Jossy Olatunji)
Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria
Nigeria’s army says it has rescued hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, who had been held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in the country’s northeast.
 
Militants kill 11 farmers in Nigeria’s north, raising fresh concerns about food supplies
Locals and authorities in Nigeria’s Borno state say Islamic rebels have killed 11 farmers and abducted several others during an attack on Sunday that was the latest of several to threaten food supplies in the hard-hit region.
 
Extremists kill 37 villagers in latest attack in Nigeria’s hard-hit northeast
Extremists in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 37 villagers in two different attacks, residents said Wednesday, highlighting once again how deadly islamic extremist rebels have remained in their 14-year insurgency in the hard-hit region.
 
At least 20 students abducted in a new attack by gunmen targeting schools in northern Nigeria
Residents and local media in northcentral Nigeria say at least 20 students have been abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria during an attack that targeted their school.
 
Extremists abduct more than 40 women in latest attack in northeast Nigeria
Locals have reported the abduction of 42 women during an attack by Islamic extremist rebels in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state. The attackers are suspected to be members of the Boko Haram extremist group.
 
Islamic extremists kill 8 farmers and abduct 10 in latest attack in northeastern Nigeria
Nigerian authorities say Islamic extremists have killed eight farmers and abducted 10 in an attack in the country’s hard-hit northeast. The region is a key part of Nigeria’s breadbasket and the attacks have threatened food supplies.
 
Correction: AF--Nigeria-Aid Workers Slain story
Islamic extremists have released a video showing the slayings of five aid workers who were abducted in northeastern Nigeria last month.
 
Suspected Boko Haram fighters kill 81 in Nigeria’s northeast
Residents and a local governor say suspected members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram have killed at least 81 people in a village in Nigeria’s northeast.
 
Nigeria frees nearly 1,000 people cleared of extremist links
Nigeria’s military says nearly 1,000 people detained by the military for alleged links to extremist group Boko Haram have been freed. Some say they were held for more than three years before found to be falsely suspected.
 
Nigerian police raid frees scores of beaten, starved boys
Police in northern Nigeria say they have raided a building where more than 300 boys had been beaten, starved, sexually assaulted and chained. It is the second such raid in less than a month.
 
After 10 years of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians crave peace
A ghastly insurgency by the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram marks 10 years this week in northeastern Nigeria, where many residents say life has been shattered. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced.
 
Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists hamper polio eradication
The Boko Haram extremist group has disrupted efforts to eradicate polio in Nigeria, one of just three countries where the crippling disease remains endemic.
 
Nobel winner Malala in Nigeria speaks out against Boko Haram
Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has visited dozens of young women in northeastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency.
 
At least 8 killed in blast at mosque in northeastern Nigeria
At least eight people are dead after a female suicide bomber detonated at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria.
 
Nigeria says 82 Chibok girls free in Boko Haram exchange
Nigeria’s government says 82 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram have been freed in exchange for detained Boko Haram suspects.
 
Nigeria says 21 abducted Chibok schoolgirls freed in swap
With the release of 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram more than two years ago, hopes have soared that the almost 200 still missing can finally come home.
 
8 killed as bombing targets taxi in northeastern Nigeria
An explosion targeted a passenger-filled taxi in northeastern Nigeria’s largest city on Wednesday, killing eight people in the deadliest bombing there in several months, officials said.
 
30 killed in northeast Nigeria by 2 girl suicide bombers
 
Boko Haram attack on northern Nigerian city kills 20
“We are under siege,” Sumaila Ayuba, her voice shaking, told The Associated Press by telephone just after midnight from her home on the city’s western flank after her sleep was shattered by the explosions. “The shooting is quite deafening. Please, we need prayers.”
 
Residents: Boko Haram readies for battle in NE Nigeria
“She told me that Boko Haram terrorists asked them to leave suddenly, that they were preparing grounds for a major battle,” Adama told The Associated Press. “She said while being helped by other women to leave through Madagali, they saw many Boko Haram terrorists in trucks and some on bikes moving t
 
Impasse in rescue of Nigerian girls
The defense chief, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, announced Monday night that the military has located the girls, but offered no details or a way forward. “We can’t go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back,” he said.
 
Nigerians search unsafe forest for abducted girls
“The military had really gladdened our hearts. But now we are left in confusion,” said Lydia Ibrahim, whose three cousins are among the kidnapped. “These girls are innocent, we plead that government should do all that they can to help us.”
 
Schools in Nigerian state close to avoid attacks
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam issued the order after visiting students with burn and gunshot wounds from Saturday’s attack on a boarding school outside Potiskum, the state’s second largest town. Extremists set a dormitory ablaze, burning some students alive. At least 29 students and one teacher were killed.