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No accountability: An Ecomog patrol in Freetown. Although Ecomog ousted the junta, its own troops also committed atrocities. (Patrick Robert/Sygma/Getty Images)
CHARLES TAYLOR

Nigerian peacekeepers haunted by the ghosts of executions past

They changed the course of Sierra Leone’s civil war, helping to defeat the rebels. But in keeping the peace, these soldiers sins of their own

  • Shola Lawal 1
19 min read
A general view shows the damage at a camp for displaced people after an attack by suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency in Dalori, Nigeria. (Reuters/Kolawole Adewale)
ABUBAKAR SHEKAU

What’s behind the return of Boko Haram?

A faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of Nigeria

  • Aminu Abubakar
  • Celia Lebur
5 min read
Refugees: More than a million people may have been forced to leave their homes in northern Nigeria by the insurgency of Islamist sect Boko Haram.
AFP

Nigerian army frees nearly 180 Boko Haram hostages

The Nigerian army has freed 178 people being held hostage by Boko Haram including more than 100 children, it said on Sunday.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
In a state: Nigeria’s military is hamstrung by corruption
BOKO HARAM

Boko Haram exploits army’s decline

As Nigeria heads to the polls, its weakened army faces criticism over its failure to contain Boko Haram.

  • Eleanor Whitehead
8 min read
CLASHES

Nigeria: Scores of villagers killed after military clashes

Fighting between a suspected extremist group and Nigerian military has claimed the lives of at least 140 villagers in northeast Nigeria.

  • Sapa Ap
3 min read
AU INFANTRY

Ethiopia pledges 5 000 peacekeepers to Darfur

Ethiopia on Thursday pledged 5 000 troops to a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region. The 26 000-strong joint mission is to…

  • Opheera McDoom
3 min read