Thirty-two years after he first took power in a military coup, Muhammadu Buhari has returned as Nigeria’s newly elected president, vowing to take on the Boko Haram militants who recently pledged ...

Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group’s flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state’s governor ...

Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram has released photos purportedly showing a training camp for child soldiers. The images show kids dressed in blue and black clothing aiming automatic rifles. They are ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Eric G. Berman, director of the Small Arms Survey from 2016 to 2019 and formerly ...

Imagine your teenage daughter was kidnapped while studying for her exams at school. And not just your daughter, but hundreds of girls in your town taken in the night. The families of Chibok, Nigeria ...

They were stolen from their beds in a school dormitory – hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped by gunmen. A few dozen escaped to tell of the night that Boko Haram ...

In April 2014, Boko Haram militants ransacked the Government Secondary School in Chibok in northeast Nigeria. The group, whose name roughly translates to "Western education is forbidden," abducted 276 ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states as militant Islamists intensify their offensive against the government. The insurgency, led by ...

After a decade of devastating war with Boko Haram extremists, they are now better armed than ever and have more sophisticated drones than the demoralized Nigerian military. The village of Konduga, ...