Douglas Burton
- Apr 18
Bandits Allied With Boko Haram Derail Train, Kill 9, Kidnap 168
A man walks past a train on the Abuja-Kaduna night railway line in Abuja, on July 21, 2016. The rail line has been under attack by...
Margaux Dandrifosse | Genocide Watch
- Sep 10, 2021
Genocide Warning: Chad (September 2021)
A man rides past fire following a protest in N'Djamena, Chad, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) On April 20, 2021,...
Deutsche Welle
- Aug 5, 2021
Chad: Dozens of soldiers dead after jihadi attack
Chadian soldiers were attacked while patrolling the volatile Lake Chad region. Both Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province...
Twyla Frid
- Jul 20, 2021
Genocide Emergency: Nigeria
Genocide Watch is issuing an updated Genocide Emergency for Nigeria. Since 2009, Boko Haram and its ideological splinter group the...
NY Times
- Jun 5, 2021
More than 100 People Killed in Attack in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s government said that about 100 people were killed by armed assailants in the north of the country Friday night, in one the...
UN News
- Apr 16, 2021
Northeast Nigeria violence forces 65,000 to flee
A spate of clashes involving Government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and...
Al Jazeera
- Mar 23, 2021
Gunmen on motorbikes raid Niger villages, kill at least 137
Newly elected President Mohamed Bazoum denounces ‘barbaric’ attacks in the border region near Mali. Attackers on motorbikes have raided...
Mayeni Jones | BBC
- Feb 24, 2021
Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri rocket attack kills 10
Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria by using rocket-propelled grenades, which local officials describe as a "new trend"....
AFP/France 24
- Jan 8, 2021
Jihadist attack kills 13 in northern Cameroon
Douala (AFP) - Thirteen civilians, eight of them children, died Friday when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a jihadist attack...
Keminni Amanor | VOA
- Jan 7, 2021
UNICEF Calls for End to Massacre of Children and Families in Niger
The U.N. children’s fund has strongly condemned the killing of at least 17 minors among scores of others slain in a weekend massacre in...
Baba Ahmed | AP
- Jan 5, 2021
Witnesses say 20 are killed in an airstrike in central Mali
BAMAKO, Mali — At least 20 people have been killed in an airstrike on a village in central Mali where Islamic extremists had confronted a...