Three years after they were snatched from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria, 82 girls have been freed by Boko Haram islamist militants. Over 100 girls remain missing.
It is the richest and most populous country in Africa, but parts of Nigeria are lurching towards a man-made famine. As the Nigerian army drives out the Islamists of Boko Haram from the north-east of the country, it is uncovering the scale of destruction they have left behind.
A second girl, who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in Nigeria, has been rescued, according to the army.
Boko Haram militants are suspected of marking 100 days since Nigeria’s election with two bloody attacks that kill 44 people in the Nigerian city of Jos, capital of the Plateau state.
Lindsey Hilsum
Cameroon’s government is working hard to banish the memories of the havoc caused by Boko Haram extremists who terrorised the north of the country for the last two years.
A group of nearly 300 Nigerian girls and women are “rescued” from Boko Haram extremists by the military were brought to a refugee camp in the country’s northeast.
The Nigerian army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from a Boko Haram camp, but the schoolgirls seized in Chibok a year ago are not among them.
Ceremonies are held to mark the anniversary of the kidnappings of 219 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria.
New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in part owes his election victory to Boko Haram, a group that tried to assassinate him, Channel 4 News analysis shows.
Militants claiming to be from the Islamic State group accept a pledge of allegiance from Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram, according to an audio message.
Jonathan Miller
With a former governor of Nigeria’s central bank alleging a US$20bn hole in the national finances, the breathtaking scale of corruption has become is a major issue in the country’s elections.
Jonathan Miller
A young Nigerian woman who escaped from a Boko Haram camp says she was held with some of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok as recently as three months ago.
A civil rights worker in Nigeria’s restive northeast organised the dramatic rescue of nearly 500 schoolgirls from a town under attack by Boko Haram.
Jonathan Miller
In a nation where jaw-dropping scandals make front page headlines day after day, there is one that does not. But day after day, every day, the Bring Back Our Girls campaign meets in Abuja.
Jonathan Miller
The new Emir of Kano emerged. He sat high on a magnificently decorated black stallion, his fist punching the hot air, master of all he surveyed. The city had seen nothing like this for half a century.