Gunmen abduct at least 80 people and killed 11 others in separate attacks in the northwest of Nigeria, in the latest attacks by armed gangs that have been preying on villages, schools and highways.

The US government played a clandestine role in a military operation in Nigeria in 2017 that killed hundreds of civilians, a damning new report has revealed.

French President Emmanuel Macron has gone on a charm offensive in Africa, amid new questions about France's involvement in the so-called "war on terror" and its brutal colonial past in the continent.

Police in northwest Nigeria say unidentified gunmen killed at least 16 people in a remote village.

At least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state are killed by unidentified armed bandits.

Dozens of people burn to death on a bus in Nigeria after gunmen attack them and torch their vehicle in a northwestern state, police say.

Gunmen attack a mosque in Nigeria, killing at least 16 people, a government official says, as armed gangs continue to wreak havoc in the restive African country.