More than 80 people were abducted by armed gangs in two separate attacks on Saturday and Sunday in northern Nigeria, the latest mass kidnapp...

Kidnappings, assassinations and other attacks have surged over the past year along Cameroon’s national highway linking the capital Yaoundé i...

More than 600 Nigerians, mostly women and children, have crossed into neighboring Cameroon after deadly clashes between farming and herdi...

Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed the planned withdrawal of around 200 U.S. troops sent to help the West African country tackle its complex secur...

Families in Nigeria’s Borno State continue to search for loved ones who have disappeared, as the world marks the International Day of the...

The mass abduction of hundreds of people from mosques in northern Nigeria this month was at once shocking and yet unsurprising: The targetin...

A SBM Intelligence report found that 7,825 people were kidnapped in Nigeria in the 12 months to June — a 66% rise on the previous year. Th...

  Armed groups in Nigeria collected nearly $6 million in ransom payments over the past year, as kidnappings surged across Africa’s most pop...

An armed group has posted a video appearing to show hundreds of people kidnapped from a mosque in Nigeria's Niger State. Sub-Saharan ...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered the military ​and other security agencies on Tuesday to launch an immediate rescue operation after s...

Kidnappers have released a video of what appears to be a large group of people being held captive by armed men in a forested area in Nigeria...

At least 25 people were killed in an overnight attack on a ​village in Nigeria's central Plateau state, local officials and ‌residents s...

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead in a remote part of the country’s conflict-battere...

More than a decade of insurgency has forced thousands of families in Nigeria’s Borno State from their homes, livelihoods and communities....

“I am profoundly happy,” Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said after security forces rescued 39 pupils and six teachers who had spent 56 days...

At least 20 people have been killed in northwest Nigeria after armed gang members attacked villages in Zamfara State, according to the AFP n...

Communities in northern Nigeria are facing a growing nutrition crisis, as health workers report an increase in child malnutrition linked ...

The 46 children and teachers that were abducted on May 15th in southwestern state of Oyo were rescued and reunited with their families on...

Aliyu Saheed feared he might not see his three young sons again. For nearly two months after al-Qaida-linked fighters carried out a mass abd...

Two months after they were abducted in southwestern Nigeria, dozens of students and teachers have been rescued, the presidency says. In a s...