The boats keep coming because the crisis begins long before the coast. Slashing aid budgets while paying £9 million a day for ...

Muslim population in Africa is rapidly growing, led by NigeriaTerrorism deaths rise sharply in Sahel, linked to Islamist ...

Notorious around the world for kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok more than a decade ago, Boko ...

The research focused on Nigerian widows who lost their husbands in the Boko Haram conflict, and the extent to which the ...

For eight years now, we have been tracking the evolution of political violence in Nigeria with the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST). While Boko Haram has always been a focus, we have collected data ...

Two new books shed light on the complicated relationship between Islam, politics, and Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

A mother mourns the death of her husband after Boko Haram attacked the village of Dalori, on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, Jan. 31, 2016. Stringer—AFP/Getty Images ...

Nigeria’s information minister, however, downplayed the December 27 attacks and further reaffirmed that Boko Haram was on the precipice of being “wiped out.” ...

Why are we seeing so many attacks in Nigeria’s northeast? Borno State has long been a hotbed for Boko Haram supporters. Since the Islamist group started gaining strength in 2011, the militants ...