Armed Boko Haram fighters have invaded Nigeria's northeast Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, residents and security sources told Xinhua on Monday.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a statement on Friday, welcoming the decision by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to designate Boko Haram in Nigeria as an entity associated with Al-Qaida.
The Chinese Embassy in Cameroon has confirmed an unidentified armed group attacked a Chinese company's camp in northern Cameroon on Friday night, leaving one Chinese national wounded and 10 others missing.
A total of 16 military personnel from U.S. Africa Command have joined the international effort to help find hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists nearly one month ago, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.
French President Francois Hollande announced on Wednesday a dispatch of security agents to Nigeria to help find abducted schoolgirls and crack down the Islamist group Boko Haram after seizing more than 234 girls last month.
A total of 90 corpses have been recovered and buried in Nigeria northeast town of Bama a day after deadly attack by Boko Haram, local official told Xinhua on Thursday.
At least 160 people have been killed by unknown gunmen in villages located in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara State in the last three months, the local authorities said on Monday.
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