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Nigeria's campaign against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents is being hampered by "cowards" in its armed forces, its presidential security adviser said in a rare public sign of high-level unhappiness with the effort. Boko Haram's bloody uprising to carve out a breakaway Islamic caliphate has seized muc...

The Islamic extremist group is accused of attacking two villages in north Cameroon.

Mistrust between Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon as well as disagreements over how to deploy troops against Boko Haram have stalled efforts to set up a regional force to combat the Islamist militants. Failure to launch the 2,800-strong mission as planned in November has left the insurgents in contr...

Boko Haram fighters have kidnapped at least 60 people in a deadly attack in northern Cameroon, police said, in the latest cross-border raid by the Nigeria-based Islamist group. A police officer told AFP, "The assault on Sunday came a day after neighbouring Chad deployed troops to combat Boko Haram i...

Dozens of Chadian tanks head out of the capital south towards Cameroon to help fight Nigeria's dreaded Boko Haram insurgents. Duration: 01:16

Army and government officials said suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon. The kidnappings, among the largest abductions on Cameroonian soil sin...

A spokesman for Cameroon's defense ministry said on Sunday, a contingent of soldiers from Chad has arrived in northern Cameroon where it will deploy to the Nigerian border as part of efforts to contain the Boko Haram insurgency. Boko Haram, which aims to carve out an Islamist state in northern Niger...

A top U.N. official says the four African nations most threatened by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram must put aside mutual distrust and agree on a command structure and strategy for a fledgling regional force if they want to defeat the militants. The U.N. Special Representative for West A...

New York's top state court, controlled by Republicans for more than a decade, will likely have a wide Democratic majority after Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday nominated a longtime judge to a vacancy. The seven-judge Court of Appeals is the last stop for many cases, and its decisions can have a br...

Ivory Coast will be competing in Group D at the Nations Cup against Cameroon, Mali and Guinea. Expectations of a win are low for the 'Elephants,' who squeezed into the tournament after a disappointing qualifying match. Duration: 02:15