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Boko Haram

July 2024

  • A group of men stand outside near some trees, some holding bows

    Kidnappings soar in central Africa’s ‘triangle of death’

    Where Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic meet, people are turning vigilante to fight back

April 2024

  • A head shot of a woman wearing a blue headscarf with a brown burqa over the top

    Nigerian woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

    Lydia Simon, recovered along with three children born in captivity, was one of 276 schoolgirls taken in 2014
  • Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the Presidential villa Abuja<br>Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

    Opinion
    #BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fighting

    Helon Habila
    The campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries
  • An illustration showing a montage of an African girl in a hijab in profile, soldiers, a hand holding a photo, and the Chibok school sign

    Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?

    While some were freed or escaped, the authorities’ waning interest and ongoing mass abductions by militants has left campaigners and families of missing pupils in despair

March 2024

  • A woman holding both hands up with the palms towards her.

    Search continues for hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren

    Two mass abductions were the latest in a series of group kidnappings by gunmen

February 2024

  • Women and girls sit in a circle at a community help group run by the Neem Foundation in Sokoto State, Nigeria

    ‘They only knew how to fight’: school helps girls to heal after Boko Haram

    The militant group continues to abduct schoolchildren in north-eastern Nigeria, but one school is giving survivors hope of a better life through education

December 2023

  • People in the back of a pickup truck with their belongs

    At least 160 dead and 300 wounded after attacks by armed gangs in Nigeria

    ‘Bandits’ started attacks in Bokkos area and spilled into neighbouring Barkin Ladi, according to local chairman

September 2023

  • Aisha Wakil in her office in Maiduguri in April 2019. Photograph: Jean Chung/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘her boys’ from terrorism – podcast

    We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors

May 2023

  • The women with their children at an army base in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

    Two women rescued nine years after Chibok schoolgirls abduction

    Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus, both 26, were among 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria

July 2022

  • A burnt-out prison bus

    Suspected Islamist attack frees hundreds of prisoners in Nigeria

    Inmates on the run after gunmen armed with explosives attack prison near capital, Abuja

April 2022

  • Chief of army staff, Gen Yahaya and top military officers visit the scene of Abuja-Kaduna train attack

    More than 160 passengers still missing from train attacked in Nigeria

    Boko Haram and local bandits suspected to have bombed rail tracks in Kaduna as dozens remain unaccounted for

December 2021

  • Nigerian soldiers drive past Government Science secondary school in Kankara, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

    Central Africa: fighting kills six soldiers and 22 jihadists in Lake Chad region

  • Bala Pada is in the grey, white and red top, with his wife and some of his children. That classroom is where they stay, at the Gwada Central Primary School in Shiroro.

    ‘If you run, you will die’: fear stalks Nigerian state as jihadists gain foothold

September 2021

  • Liyatu Ayuba

    Delivering babies in a Nigerian camp: ‘I’ve had to use plastic bags as gloves’

    After seeing a woman die in childbirth, Liyatu Ayuba stepped in and has now delivered 118 babies in a community cut off from public health services

August 2021

  • The remaining wares of students of Bethel Baptist high school as parent of abducted students pray for the return of their children.

    More than 200 children remain abducted in Nigeria amid ‘kidnap epidemic’

  • Names of missing Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency displayed during the fifth year anniversary of their abduction in 2019

    Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after Boko Haram kidnap, governor says

July 2021

  • Nigeria: families gather at school after gunmen abduct 140 pupils – video

  • The beds from which the boarding students at Bethel Baptist school were seized.

    Attackers kidnap 140 pupils from Nigerian boarding school

June 2021

  • Islamic State fighters celebrate in May 2019 after an ambush on an army patrol, in the western Tillabéri region of Niger, that killed at least 28 troops.

    Isis-linked groups open up new fronts across sub-Saharan Africa

  • Abubakar Shekau pictured in a screengrab from a 2014 video released by Boko Haram and obtained by AFP

    Boko Haram leader killed on direct orders of Islamic State

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