Fighters from the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram have launched an attack on a military base in the northwest Cameroonian city of Kolofata, police and government officials say. Monday's attack came a day after blasts struck an open market selling
Yanaye Grema hid for three days between a wall and his neighbours' house, as Boko Haram fighters ransacked his home town of Baga on the shore of Lake Chad in Nigeria's far northeast. The 38-year-old fisherman already
“The attack on Baga and surrounding towns, looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act in a catalogue of increasingly heinous attacks carried out by the group. If reports that the town was largely razed to the ground and
Baga town was the scene of fighting between troops and Boko Haram in early 2013, when dozens of people were killed. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images. Monica Mark in Lagos. Monday 5 January 2015 19.08
Fighters from the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram have launched an attack on a military base in the northwest Cameroonian city of Kolofata, police and government officials say. Monday's attack came a day after blasts struck an open market selling