Topic: West Africa
Nigeria was on high alert Monday after the United States warned of fresh attacks following a wave of deadly blasts claimed by Islamists killed 150 people in the northeast of the country.Friday's attacks in the city of Damaturu were among the deadliest ...
The latest deadly attacks by an Islamist sect in northern Nigeria, including multiple suicide bombings, point to the group's growing determination to take on the government, analysts said Monday.The coordinated attacks that shook Nigeria's northeast on Friday, killing at least 150, also ...
(Reuters) - At least 65 people were killed in a spate of coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu Friday, in an attack claimed by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram.Witnesses said dozens of bodies were piling up ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A triple suicide bombing of military headquarters in Maiduguri and three roadside bombs in different areas shook northeast Nigeria's biggest city Friday, while militants launched multiple gun and bomb attacks two other cities west of it, witnesses and ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner in midair on Christmas Day 2009, told the federal judge overseeing his trial on Wednesday that he wants to plead guilty to all the ...
Three additional suspects, including a banker, have been arrested over two car bombings on last year's Independence Day in Abuja, which killed at least 12 people, Nigeria's secret police said Tuesday.One of the three, who was declared wanted and said to be ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Opening statements begin on Tuesday in the trial of a young Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 by hiding a bomb in his underpants.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose unsuccessful attack led ...
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