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    • Monday, 26 April, 2021
      The Big Read
      Why ‘the kidnapping industry is thriving’ in Nigeria

      Unemployment, underfunded security forces and access to guns have combined to produce record numbers of abductions

    • Friday, 18 December, 2020
      Nigeria
      Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys released

      Islamist group Boko Haram claims credit for attack as president says more needs to be done to improve security

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
      Wale Lawal
      Nigeria’s problems cannot be solved by young people alone

      The government’s brutal response to peaceful protests shows elders must reckon with a moral crisis

    • Wednesday, 9 September, 2020
      David Pilling
      What the campaign to eradicate polio tells us about Covid-19

      Africa’s recent success helps position the continent to tackle coronavirus

    • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
      Cameroon
      Cameroon separatist crisis prompts call for ‘national dialogue’

      President Biya intervenes in bloody linguistic conflict — but is criticised for speaking only in French

    • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Niger: war at the heart of west Africa

      One of the world’s poorest nations at the centre of international efforts to fight jihadis

    • Tuesday, 11 December, 2018
      African companies
      Groups adapt to insurgency to tap Nigerian growth

      One of the world’s most dangerous areas is also one of the fastest-growing markets

    • Monday, 10 December, 2018
      Neil Munshi
      Pringles and pasta bring profit in crisis-hit northern Nigeria

      A store that caters to aid workers thrives while the fight against Boko Haram continues

    • Thursday, 6 December, 2018
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Under fire: why Nigeria is struggling to defeat Boko Haram

      A demoralised and underequipped army is being blamed for slow progress against militants in the northeast

    • Sunday, 25 November, 2018
      Nigeria
      Deaths of Nigerian soldiers put pressure on president

      Election opponents accuse Muhammadu Buhari of failing to deal with Boko Haram insurgency

    • Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
      UK foreign policy
      May pledges £10.5m to Nigeria to tackle terrorism and trafficking

      Prime minister steps up British security effort in west Africa

    • Wednesday, 16 May, 2018
      News in-depthAfrican politics
      Nigeria violence adds to pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari

      Ex-general’s bid for re-election threatened by Boko Haram militants that he promised to destroy

    • Friday, 11 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Nigeria’s Missing Daughters, BBC2 — a quiet approach to documenting trauma

      Using interviews to camera, women kidnapped by Boko Haram speak simply and powerfully about their ordeal

    • Wednesday, 4 April, 2018
      World
      ‘Killer herdsmen’ blamed for wave of deadly Nigeria clashes

      Drought and over-population triggers conflict between pastoralists and farmers

    • Wednesday, 21 March, 2018
      World
      Boko Haram releases girls with ominous warning

      Extremists tell residents of Nigerian town not to put their daughters in school

    • Wednesday, 28 February, 2018
      The FT ViewTerrorism
      Boko Haram’s cowardly assault on Nigerian girls

      Fresh abductions come four years after Chibok shocked the world

    • Monday, 26 February, 2018
      ExplainerWorld1 min
      Search in Nigeria for girls abducted by Boko Haram

      Jihadists stormed Dapchi school in Yobe state to seize schoolchildren

    • Monday, 26 February, 2018
      African politics
      Nigerian president vows to rescue girls kidnapped by Boko Haram

      Buhari pledges action following latest abduction of 110 children by militant Islamists

    • Tuesday, 16 January, 2018
      The FT ViewIslam
      Nigeria plays with fire in its handling of Shia sect

      The persecution of radical cleric Ibrahim el-Zakzaky rebounds upon the state

    • Monday, 15 January, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Boko Haram, by Alexander Thurston

      Detailed analysis of how a local protest in Nigeria became a brutal jihadi group

    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2017
      World
      Suicide bomber kills 50 in north-east Nigeria mosque

      Boko Haram militants blamed for biggest mass killing in region this year

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
      Terrorism in Germany
      Terror attacks on developed nations hit 16-year high

      West suffers more deaths from militant action in 2017 than any year since 2001

    • Monday, 9 October, 2017
      Oil
      Nigeria’s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo puts positive spin on economy

      Rise in oil production linked to improved security in Delta region

    • Friday, 29 September, 2017
      World
      Nigeria dismisses Biafra separatist drive as ‘storm in a tea cup’

      Secessionist push adds to security problems as Abuja tackles Boko Haram

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2017
      Michael von der Schulenburg
      Conflicts inside states demand a new global security regime

      Without updated international laws, ever larger regions could become ungovernable

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