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.

Criminal gangs have terrorized northwestern and central Nigeria for years.