Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu — who jumped from a moving truck as their captors tried to spirit them away to a forest hideout in 2014 — are now planning to pursue master's degrees For Joy Bishara and ...

Sarah Carter is an award-winning CBS News producer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been with CBS News since 1997, following freelance work for organizations including The New York Times, ...

It appears that the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has resurfaced after a relatively quiet period. Last week, three simultaneous bomb blasts shook the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, ...

­­Kano, Nigeria — Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group's activities ...

The leader of Boko Haram — the Nigerian terror group that has killed tens of thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren — has killed himself ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned to ...

Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group’s flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state’s governor ...

The Nigerian government backtracked after claiming the girls had been rescued. —LONDON -- Four days after dozens of schoolgirls went missing from a boarding school in Nigeria, the government was ...

According to the Times story, Boko Haram militants now control four of ten zones in northern Borno state, near Lake Chad. They are well armed following raids on military facilities, and now employ the ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At about 10.40 one morning last August, Mohammed Abul Barra rammed his ash-colored station wagon into a security gate outside the United Nations headquarters in the ...