Nigeria

News Hour: The leader of the Boko Haram group is believed to be fatally wounded in an air strike carried out by the Nigerian military in the country’s northeast, according to official sources, reports Aljazeera. Government...

News Hour: The Federal Government of Nigeria, with support from IOM, on Thursday (18/8) launched the National Labour Migration Policy in the capital, Abuja. The policy, which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in October...

News Hour: Five Islamists were killed as Nigerian troops thwarted a Boko Haram attack near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the seven-year insurgency, the army said on Tuesday, reports BSS. “Troops of Operation...

News Hour: A major humanitarian operation is needed to save lives in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, where more than 500,000 people are living in catastrophic conditions in villages and towns affected by the conflict between the military...

News Hour: A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in northeastern Nigeria’s war-torn Borno State, where at least 500,000 people are in urgent need of food, medical care, water, and shelter, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without...

News Hour: Halima cries as her mother Yagana lifts her up to be weighed. The one-year-old girl’s belly protrudes over legs that are barely more than paper-thin skin and bone. The baby has been treated for...

News Hour: A catastrophic humanitarian emergency is currently unfolding in a camp for internally displaced people in Borno State, Nigeria, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said last week. For several...

News Hour: Sierra Leone’s deputy high commissioner has been snatched in Nigeria, government sources said on Friday, the first kidnapping of a diplomat from the west African country in more than half a century, reports BSS....

News Hour: The Nigerian army says it has rescued more than 5,000 people who were being held hostage by Boko Haram following a clearing operation in four remote villages in the northeastern Borno state, reports Aljazeera....

News Hour: Three Australians, a New Zealander and South African have been kidnapped along with two locals in Nigeria’s southeast after their vehicle was attacked, officials said on Thursday, reports BSS. The hold-up, in which the...