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Unemployment, underfunded security forces and access to guns have combined to produce record numbers of abductions
Islamist group Boko Haram claims credit for attack as president says more needs to be done to improve security
The government’s brutal response to peaceful protests shows elders must reckon with a moral crisis
Africa’s recent success helps position the continent to tackle coronavirus
President Biya intervenes in bloody linguistic conflict — but is criticised for speaking only in French
One of the world’s poorest nations at the centre of international efforts to fight jihadis
One of the world’s most dangerous areas is also one of the fastest-growing markets
A store that caters to aid workers thrives while the fight against Boko Haram continues
A demoralised and underequipped army is being blamed for slow progress against militants in the northeast
Election opponents accuse Muhammadu Buhari of failing to deal with Boko Haram insurgency
Prime minister steps up British security effort in west Africa
Ex-general’s bid for re-election threatened by Boko Haram militants that he promised to destroy
Using interviews to camera, women kidnapped by Boko Haram speak simply and powerfully about their ordeal
Drought and over-population triggers conflict between pastoralists and farmers
Extremists tell residents of Nigerian town not to put their daughters in school
Fresh abductions come four years after Chibok shocked the world
Jihadists stormed Dapchi school in Yobe state to seize schoolchildren
Buhari pledges action following latest abduction of 110 children by militant Islamists
The persecution of radical cleric Ibrahim el-Zakzaky rebounds upon the state
Detailed analysis of how a local protest in Nigeria became a brutal jihadi group
Boko Haram militants blamed for biggest mass killing in region this year
West suffers more deaths from militant action in 2017 than any year since 2001
Rise in oil production linked to improved security in Delta region
Secessionist push adds to security problems as Abuja tackles Boko Haram
Without updated international laws, ever larger regions could become ungovernable
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