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MAIDUGURI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Government troops and severalhundred residents were forced to flee after Islamist insurgentsoverran a town in northeast Nigeria, security sources...

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Development banks and states havepledged a total of $14.32 billion over the next four years tobuild a "Great Green Wall" to help contain desertification...

YAOUNDE, Jan 8 (Reuters) - At least 13 people includingchildren died when a suicide bomber blew herself in a crowd thatwas fleeing an armed attack in northern Cameroon on Friday,...

NIAMEY, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Niger has declared three days ofnational mourning following the massacre of 100 civilians in twovillages in the western region of the country where...

ABUJA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Nigeria faces oxygen supplychallenges to treat coronavirus patients in parts of the countryand unacceptable laboratory delays as case numbers rose to...

* Pope delivers traditional message virtually due toCovid-19* Urges all nations to share Covid-19 vaccines* Calls for peace, reconciliation in global hot spotsBy Philip...

(Refiles to fix reporting credits, no change to text) * Nigerian authorities say 344 boys freed after six days * Security experts sceptical Islamist militants directlyinvolved *...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s outgoing lower house Speaker Rodrigo Maia anointed the leader of one the country’s largest centrist parties to go up against an ally of President Jair...

* Schoolboys held for six days * Boko Haram claimed responsibility, no confirmation * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed (Adds attempted abduction of another group of...

* Schoolboys held for six days * Boko Haram claimed responsibility, no confirmation * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed By Seun Sanni and Ismail Abba KANKARA, Nigeria Dec...

* Schoolboys back a week after abduction * Boko Haram claimed responsibility, no confirmation * One freed boy says he suspects captors were bandits (Recasts with family reunions;...

LAGOS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Dozens of the 344 kidnapped boysfreed from their captors in northwest Nigeria were seen arrivingat local government buildings in the city of Katsina on...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school on Dec. 11 * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed * Islamist militants had claimed responsibility in audiotape By Ismail Abba...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school last week * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed * Islamist militants claim responsibility in audiotape (Adds comment from parent,...

LAGOS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - More than 300 schoolboys kidnappedin northern Nigeria were handed over to government security, theKatsina state governor said in a televised interview....

MAIDUGURI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A video circulating on socialmedia on Thursday purportedly showed Islamist militant groupBoko Haram with some of the hundreds of schoolboys...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school last week* Islamist militants claim responsibility in audiotape* Parents fear time running out to bring the boys home By Afolabi Sotunde...