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Trump Announces ‘Powerful’ US Strike on Islamic State Militants in Nigeria’s Sokoto State

Adeyemi Daniel AdedayoDecember 26, 2025December 26, 2025

by Adeyemi Daniel AdedayoDecember 26, 2025December 26, 20250

U.S. forces have carried out coordinated strikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, marking a rare American kinetic operation inside Africa’s most populous country...

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Mass Kidnapping in Kebbi: 25 Schoolgirls Taken, Staff Killed in Nigeria Attack

Adeyemi Daniel AdedayoNovember 17, 2025November 17, 2025

by Adeyemi Daniel AdedayoNovember 17, 2025November 17, 20250

A disturbing new episode of violence has erupted in northwestern Nigeria where gunmen took 25 girls from a government-run high in Kebbi state early, on...

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Ghana’s new president faces tough regional security problems: why he’s well-placed to tackle them

YoopyaJanuary 13, 2025January 13, 2025

by YoopyaJanuary 13, 2025January 13, 20250

John Mahama has been sworn in as Ghana’s new president. He inherits a host of security challenges by dint of the country’s position in the west African...

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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill at least 37 in Nigeria attack

YoopyaSeptember 4, 2024September 4, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 4, 2024September 4, 20240

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and...

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Mapping the contours of Jihadist groups in the Sahel

YoopyaSeptember 25, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 25, 2021June 13, 20230

The Sahel region, an area covering 3 million sq km, has been a hotbed of Islamic Jihadi groups in recent years. Today, the region has...

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The kidnapped woman who defied Boko Haram

YoopyaMarch 12, 2021June 19, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 12, 2021June 19, 20230

Mass kidnappings of children in Nigeria have been making global headlines recently and this has been hard to watch for a young woman who was...

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Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students

YoopyaFebruary 28, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 28, 2021June 13, 20230

Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing...

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Nigeria Official: 42 abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed

YoopyaFebruary 27, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 27, 2021June 13, 20230

An official says 42 people including 27 students who were abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed. The chief...

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Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction

YoopyaFebruary 26, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 26, 2021June 13, 20230

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students...

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Islamic extremists kill Nigerian pastor, attack his hometown

YoopyaFebruary 28, 2020June 14, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 28, 2020June 14, 20230

Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed a Christian pastor who had appealed for help in a video just days earlier, and a human rights activist...