On the night of April 14, 2014, when 276 young female students were kidnapped by members of Boko Haram, an Islamist militant sect, from the Government Girls Secondary School in
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Many fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been reported dead, after military airstrikes hit their convoy in Borno. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused

About 594 ex-insurgents have begged Nigerians for forgiveness over the roles they played in destabilising communities in the country. The ex-insurgents made the plea during their six-month De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says troops killed 76 insurgents and arrested 236 criminal suspects across the country in two weeks. Speaking on Thursday at a media briefing, Musa Danmadami, the

At least 50 women have been abducted by suspected insurgents in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region. The women were said

Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff (CDS), says 613 “repentant” insurgents who have undergone rehabilitation will be transferred to their

Security forces in Mozambique say lions and crocodiles have attacked insurgents in the country. According to the BBC, Bernardino Rafael,

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says an insurgent leader, identified as ‘Alhaji Shanono’, and 17 others have been killed by

Nigerian soldiers have reportedly repelled an attack by suspected fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in