Chad’s government emphasized that it reserves the right to respond to any future aggression or violation of its territory. As part of the new measures, all movement of goods and people across the bord ...

Following unrelenting attacks by Boko Haram, the Federal Government has sought collaboration with ‘critical’ neighbors to block all arms and ammunition supply routes of the sect. The affected ...

The operation took place in Djaboullam on Sunday, March 22, after authorities in Niger and Chad received information that the terrorists were regrouping. Many Boko Haram insurgents have died after two ...

Nigerian authorities denied reports that the attacks had taken place on its soil, saying they were likely to have instead hit targets in neighbouring Niger. The air raids caused heavy human and ...

Abdulhamid Mohammed fled his home in northeast Nigeria in 2015, chased into neighbouring Chad by jihadists who torched homes and shot civilians in his lakeside village. A decade later, little has ...

UNHCR is increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of the violence in north-eastern Nigeria. Newly-arriving refugees interviewed by our staff in Niger have spoken of atrocities on the islands ...

The Sahel region has, in recent years, emerged as the world's most lethal theatre of terrorism, and Nigeria can no longer afford to view this crisis as a distant regional tragedy occurring in a vacuum ...

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