News came from northeast Nigeria on January 3rd that the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram had attacked Baga, a fishing town of ten thousand people on the shores of Lake Chad that has been raided by ...

They were stolen from their beds in a school dormitory – hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped by gunmen. A few dozen escaped to tell of the night that Boko Haram ...

Imagine your teenage daughter was kidnapped while studying for her exams at school. And not just your daughter, but hundreds of girls in your town taken in the night. The families of Chibok, Nigeria ...

Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, who survived being kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014, are now graduating from a U.S. college. Nearly seven years after Boko Haram snatched them from their beds in the northeast ...

In April 2014, Boko Haram militants ransacked the Government Secondary School in Chibok in northeast Nigeria. The group, whose name roughly translates to "Western education is forbidden," abducted 276 ...

Women and girls kidnapped by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are raped and forced to marry fighters even if they are underage, according to testimonies from women who have escaped the group. In ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—On a week when a number of local airlines either cancelled or rescheduled flights owing to a scarcity of aviation fuel, all 21 recently released schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Eric G. Berman, director of the Small Arms Survey from 2016 to 2019 and formerly ...

Salamatu Umar was abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, when she was just 15. She and five other girls were herded in the bush. She was forced to marry a Boko Haram fighter. She and another girl eventually ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned to ...