At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bombing of a mosque in the eastern Nigerian state of Adamawa.
Two girls, identified as being part of the 276 schoolgirls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014, were found on May 20th, but Boko Haram remains a major threat.
Dozens of mostly Muslim countries from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia have joined a new military alliance to combat terrorism, Saudi Arabia has announced.
The recent bombings in the city of Zaria follow a week of carnage across northern Nigeria, and are proof that the Boko Haram insurgency around Lake Chad has entered a new phase.
Muhammadu Buhari secured a landslide victory in the March 28 elections, and became the first opposition figure to win power through a peaceful democratic transition since the country’s re-establishment of democracy in 1999