a few kilometers from Baga. Nigeria, Chad, and Niger established the MNJTF in 1998, initially to check criminal activities in the border areas between the three countries. Satellite imagery ...

The palpable insecurity in the Lake Chad Region occasioned by armed banditry, arms trafficking and border intrusion along Nigeria’s border with Chad, Cameroon and Niger necessitated the ...

Nigerian forces backed by air strikes have seized the north-eastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram, the military says. Retaking the town - at Nigeria's border with Chad ...

The offensive started on Jan. 3 with a daring raid on a multinational military base near Baga that had been established to combat crime in the lawless border region where Nigeria, Niger ...

Nigeria says 150 people died when Boko Haram took Baga and nearby Doron Baga ... In recent months it has also carried out cross-border raids in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, attacking ...

He added: “Our first objective is to see how we can support the army and the navy to clear the waterways so that movement by boat from Baga to Chad can commence which will enhance trans border ...

The ministry dismissed higher estimates for deaths at Baga, in north-east Nigeria ... that the insurgents had come in over the Nigerian border. In the exchange of gunfire, the army said one ...

Together with Doron Baga, it is also a commercial and fishing hub for Borno state and important for international trade as it sits on the border with Chad. Niger withdrew its troops in November ...

The Nigerian troops on Monday eliminated Tahir Baga, a top commander of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, better known as Boko Haram, during an offensive operation in the ...

Just before dawn on Saturday in the fishing town of Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad, insurgents drove up in pickup trucks and fired assault rifles at fleeing soldiers and civilians, said a ...

Nigerian Army personnel under Operation Hadin Kai have reportedly killed a top commander of the Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, otherwise known as Boko Haram, Tahir Baga during ...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said. "We have secured ...