Despite the insurgency, which has killed many people, caused the displacement of millions, confines women to traditional roles and forbids the education of girls, women are fending for their families and starting lucrative businesses. Meet the make-up artists of Maiduguri
Results from nearly 120 000 polling stations were being collated at local and state level before being sent to the capital, Abuja, on Sunday
Eleven people have been killed after suspected members of Boko Haram were entangled in a shoot-out when troops raided their alleged hideout.
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/ 11 February 2012
Two blasts went off outside a customs building in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram Islamists.
Samuel Yunana’s father was taken from his home, stabbed in the side of the stomach and told to convert to Islam. When he refused, his throat was slit.
Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves on Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week’s Islamist uprising that killed hundreds.
More than 600 people were killed last week in clashes between the security forces and members of a radical Islamic sect in the city of Maiduguri.
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/ 11 January 2006
Defeated in the field by a bloody military crackdown, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic insurgency has dispersed amid the dusty back streets of the country’s teeming northern cities and is plotting its comeback. Small numbers of militants await the moment to re-launch their campaign for a Muslim revolution in Africa’s most populous state.
Leaders of the world’s seven most industrialised countries as well as Russia, due next week to consider aid to Africa, should seek a prime example of what not to do in Maiduguri, a dusty Nigerian city on the edge of the Sahara desert.