Boko Haram-fuelled famine threatens 120,000 Nigerians as Lake Chad crisis deepens, UN warns
At least 120,000 people are facing starvation in northeastern Nigeria due to a "catastrophic" man-made famine caused by the insurgency of...
Nigeria’s President Orders New Probe Into Chibok Abductions
Boko Haram took the 219 girls in April 2014 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a new investigationinto the kidnapping of 219...
Cameroon suicide attack leaves at least 7 dead
At least seven civilians were killed Friday in a suicide attack in Kolofata, northern Cameroon, a region where Nigeria's Boko Haram...
World’s Deadliest? Boko Haram and the Challenge of Quantifying Violence
As French President Francois Hollande decried the so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS)November 13th Paris attacks as an act of war, a...
The Islamic State West Africa continues to utilize women as suicide bombers
Boko Haram, which now calls itself the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWA), continues to utilize women as suicide bombers in...
Suicide bombers kill over 30 in Cameroon and Nigeria
A child and a middle-aged woman were deployed as suicide bombers in the Far North Region of Cameroon and in Yobe state in Nigeria over...
Teenage suicide bombers kill more than 20 in northern Cameroon
The Islamic State’s West Africa province (ISWA), formerly known as Boko Haram, killed more than 20 people in a double suicide attack in...
Al Qaeda 2.0 – Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and Extremism in Africa
The kidnapping of more than 300 Nigerian school girls weeks ago – and now word of a new massacre – by Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist...
Boko Haram: Framing an Islamist Insurgency
The Nigerian government has been engaged in a narrative struggle with Boko Haram in order to win popular support and end the insurgency....
"Boko Haram's Evolving Threat": J. Peter Pham Report for the National Defense Universi
The reemergence of the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram is cause for significant concern. Since late 2010, the organization...
