Boko Haram Kidnappings

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  Explained: Nigeria's Spiralling Kidnapping Crisis

  Ten years after the Chibok schoolgirls' kidnapping, Nigeria is facing a resurgence of mass abductions.

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  Boko Haram Kidnapped 276 Girls Two Years Ago. What Happened To Them?

  Two years ago Thursday, just before midnight on a sweltering night in a town in northeastern Nigeria, men carrying AK-47s stormed into the Chibok Government Secondary School.

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  Boko Haram Kidnaps 16 Women In North-East Nigeria: Police

  Boko Haram gunmen have abducted 16 women in a remote area of northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, police, a lawmaker and locals told AFP on Thursday.

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  Cameroon Frees 24 Hostages After Suspected Boko Haram Kidnapping

  Cameroon's army has freed 24 of some 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighbouring Nigeria, a defence ministry spokesman said on Monday.

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  'Hundreds' of Women, Children Held After Boko Haram Assault: Survivors

  Boko Haram fighters detained hundreds of women and children at a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga after a massive attack earlier this month, one woman who was freed told AFP.

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  Boko Haram Seizes 40 in Northern Nigeria

  Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in northeast Nigerian Borno state on New Year's Eve, residents who fled the isolated settlement said on Saturday.

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  Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen Kidnap Over 100 Women, Children in Nigeria

  Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 other people on Sunday during a raid on the remote northeast Nigerian village of Gumsuri, a security source and resident said on Thursday.

• Boko Haram Suspected to Have Kidnapped 20 More Women in Northeast Nigeria

  Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on April 15.

• Nigeria ex-President Obasanjo Holds Talks to Free Schoolgirls

  Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo has met with people close to Boko Haram in an attempt to broker the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants, a source close to the talks told AFP.

• Nigerian Defence Chief Says Kidnapped Girls Located

  Nigeria's military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country's chief of defence said Monday.

• Longer-Term Foreign Help Needed to Stop Boko Haram

  Nigeria needs foreign help to defeat Boko Haram, a senior intelligence source told AFP on Friday, as the country's top Muslim leader broke his silence to demand action to defeat the militants.

• Protest at Nigeria's Presidency for Safe Release of Kidnapped Girls

  Protesters on Thursday were taking their call for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram to Nigeria's president, as US military personnel headed to Chad as part of the rescue effort.

• Boko Haram Kidnappers 'Despicable': IMF's Christine Lagarde

  International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has branded Boko Haram, the Nigerian insurgents who kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, "despicable".

• Nigeria, Neighbours 'Declare War' on Boko Haram Over Abducted Girls

  Nigeria and its neighbours vowed on Saturday to join forces against Boko Haram under an accord described as a declaration of war on the Islamic militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls.

• Nigeria Needs Foreign Support: Former Mossad Official

  Nigeria must draw on foreign military and intelligence expertise to tackle the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, a former deputy chief of Israel's secret intelligence service said Wednesday.