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Boko Haram launches raids in Cameroon-

On April 19, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari assured the then newly inaugurated President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum, that Nigeria would assist

Nigeria Now Under Seige, Nobody Is Safe, Says Mahdi Shehu  Former commander of Multinational Joint Task Force, General John Temlong (rtd) and Human rights activist, Mahdi Shehu spoke on ARISE News Morning Show on Tuesday about insecurity in Nigeria, how Nigeria is now under siege and no one is safe. Human rights activist Mahdi Shehu…

The dismissed soldiers were part of the personnel deployed to the 159 Battalion at Baga in Borno State.

A multinational force with troops from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad said it had killed over 800 jihadists in the Lake Chad region.

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An administration official in the Logone and Chari department and a gendarme officer said suspected jihadists killed six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon's Far North region.

Troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have killed 800 militants, rescued 4,500 civilians since late March

In April, seven East African Community countries agreed to establish a regional military force to restore stability in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where violence by militia groups is ongoing. This is not the first ad hoc coalition of troops deployed in crisis-affected African countries. In 2021, Rwanda and Southern African Development Community (SADC) states sent two separate missions to northern Mozambique to fight the insurgency there. The African Union (AU) endorsed th...

In a landscape dominated by violent extremism and deadly transnational armed groups, the force’s viability is in question.