They were freed from Boko Haram’s rape camps. But their nightmare isn’t over. By Kevin Sieff  3 April 2016    Image: Halima, 15, holds Hauwa, the baby of her friend Hamsatu, 25, who is sewing a prayer cap in their tent in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Both women were abducted, held captive and forced into marriage by Boko Haram. (Jane Hahn/For The Washington Post) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the

Chadian helicopters bomb Boko Haram on Nigeria-Niger border- Niger Army Reuters 22 March 2015   (Reuters) - Two Chadian army helicopters bombed Nigerian Boko Haram positions on Sunday, killing several dozen militants near a village on the border with Niger, a senior Niger military official told Reuters. Niger and Chadian soldiers have been fighting the Islamist militants in a joint mission with Nigeria and Cameroon since March 2, in a bid to

France to press for U.N. support for Africa force to fight Boko Haram Abdoulaye Massalaki, Reuters 22 February 2015   NIAMEY (Reuters) – France will support a bid by the African Union to win the backing of the U.N. Security Council for its five-nation force fighting Islamist militant group Boko Haram, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday. Fabius spoke on a tour of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, countries that have launched operations

Boko Haram crisis: Niger to send troops to Nigeria BBC Africa 10 February 2015   Niger's parliament has voted to send troops to Nigeria to join the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The vote took place after Boko Haram attacked a prison and detonated a car bomb on Monday in the town of Diffa, near Niger's border with Nigeria. MPs said parliament unanimously authorised deploying 750 soldiers with a regional force battling Boko

Boko Haram launches twin attacks in Niger and Cameroon Reuters, Abdoulaye Massalaki and Anne Mireille Nzouankeu 9 February 2015 (Reuters) - Islamist Boko Haram insurgents from Nigeria bombed a Niger border town and carried out attacks in neighbouring Cameroon, kidnapping a bus full of passengers, military and local sources said on Monday. The jihadist sect has killed thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds in a bid to carve out an Islamic emirate

Cameroon govt says 143 Boko Haram militants killed Divine Ntaryike, Associated Press 13 January 2015   DOUALA, Cameroon — Cameroon’s government said Tuesday that its military killed 143 militants from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which has been waging war in neighboring Nigeria. In a statement carried on state television, authorities said hundreds of militants had attacked a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata the day before

Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria force 13,000 to flee to Cameroon By UNHCR 11 November 2014 GENEVA, November 11 (UNHCR) –The UN refugee agency on Tuesday reported that thousands of people continue to flee to Cameroon to escape attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in north-east Nigeria. "According to Cameroonian authorities, some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from Adamawa state after insurgents attacked and captured the town of Mubi in late October.

Boko Haram kill scores in captured Nigeria town By Aminu Abubakar, Yahoo News 30 August 2014 Boko Haram gunmen have killed scores of residents in a Nigerian town on the border with Cameroon that they captured in recent raids, witnesses told AFP on Saturday. The militants seized Gamboru Ngala earlier this week after taking over military and police facilities in a fierce gun battle which forced thousands of residents across the border into Cameroon.

Cameroon says kills 27 Boko Haram militants in border clashes By Tansa Musa and Lanre Ola, Euronews 27 August 2014 Cameroon’s army has killed 27 members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram near a northern town, state radio said on Wednesday, in a sign of the growing cross-border threat the militants pose. The Boko Haram fighters crossed the border into Cameroon earlier this week, after attacking a military base and police station in Nigeria and

By Tansa Musa Reuters 27 July 2014  Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials said. A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine, who is also the town's mayor, and five members of his family were also kidnapped in a separate attack on