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Boko Haram overruns Nigerian military base in northeast

By MICHELLE FAUL and IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ - Associated Press

Doctors Without Borders has managed to get aid to a camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, but as many as 75,000 children will die in the next year as families seeking refuge from Boko Haram find famine-like conditions. (Associated Press)

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram now threatened by famine

By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times

Nigerians object as judges detained, suspected of corruption

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Tuesday May. 24, 2016 file photo, Nigeria Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman looks on, during an event in Lagos, Nigeria. Islamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country's military said Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 The attacks bring the official toll to 10 troops killed and 24 wounded this past week in a resurgence of violence after a lull as the extremists confronted a leadership struggle. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba File)

Revenge against Nigeria’s military leads some to Boko Haram

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 file photo, a doctor feeds a malnourished child at a feeding centre run by Doctors Without Borders in Maiduguri, Nigeria. As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

75,000 could starve to death in Nigeria after Boko Haram: UN

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

Nigerian officials have claimed on at least three occasions that they have killed or fatally wounded Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau — only to have him resurface weeks or months later in video recordings. (Associated Press)

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader, killed in airstrike as John Kerry arrives in Nigeria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Germany's players, right, celebrate after qualifying for the final at the end of a semifinal match of the men's Olympic football tournament against Nigeria in Sao Paulo, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2016. Germany won 2-0 and will play the final against Brazil.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Germany in the Olympic final after victory over Nigeria

Associated Press

Esther Yakubu, mother of one of the kidnapped school girls, cries out after she saw her daughter in a video released by Boko Haram during a briefing in Abuja, Nigeria. Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga) ** FILE **

Abducted Nigerian Chibok girls killed in airstrikes: Boko Haram

By Michelle Faul and Haruna Umar - Associated Press

Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus controls the ball during a Brazil Olympic soccer team training session in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 1, 2016. Brazil holds its first match against South Africa on August 4. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Nigeria sports minister apologizes for Olympics travel chaos

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2016, file photo, Nigeria's Sincere Muenfuh Seth, left, controls the ball against Denmark's Emil Larsen during a 4 Nations International U-23 soccer tournament at the Goyang Stadium in Goyang, South Korea. Sincere Muenfuh Seth, member of the Nigerian men's Olympic soccer team, and his teammates had their trip to the Rio Games delayed by a mix-up at the airport, forcing the club to board a last-minute flight from Atlanta to Brazil just hours before its opening match. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

From plane to pitch, Nigeria soccer team wins Olympic opener

By JOSH HOFFNER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Friday April 1, 2016 file photo, Nigerian Shiite Muslims take to the street to protest and demanded the release of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky in Cikatsere, Nigeria. Nigeria's army gunned down 348 Shiites in an attack in which one soldier was killed, according to the report of a commission of inquiry published Monday, Aug. 1, 2016 which calls for all those involved in the killings to be prosecuted. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)

Nigeria army killed 348 Shiites, commission of inquiry says

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May. 3, 2015 photo a doctor attends to a malnourished child at a refugee camp in Yola, Nigeria. The U.N. children's agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria's Islamic extremist uprising if they don't get treatment. UNICEF is calling for charities and donors to respond quickly to avert a tragedy in Borno state, where nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

49,000 kids dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram: U.N.

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

In March 2014, police raided a baby mill in Enugu, Nigeria, and rescued young women being held there awaiting birth. (Ali Abare Abubakar/Special to the Washington Times)

Nigeria’s baby mills victimize vulnerable mothers, sell infants on black market

By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times

Nigerian soldiers man a checkpoint in Gwoza, Nigeria, a town newly liberated from Boko Haram, on April 8, 2015. (Associated Press)

Nigeria, battling Boko Haram in north, faces new threat from ‘Niger Delta Avengers’ in south

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

RETRANSMISSION TO REMOVE NAME OF POTENTIAL RAPE VICTIM - FILE - This May 12, 2014, file image taken from video posted by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show the missing girls abducted from a boarding school in the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers have found one of the kidnapped girls, her uncle said Wednesday, May 18, 2016 describing her as pregnant and traumatized but otherwise fine. (Militant Video via AP, File)

1st Chibok girl to escape Boko Haram to be feted in Nigeria

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

On the Decline: U.S. and allied forces have been making significant gains against the notorious Islamist terror group Boko Haram, but analysts believe the group would have been defeated long ago were it not for rampant Nigerian military corruption. (Associated Press)

Boko Haram ‘on the defensive’ as U.S., allies prepare to escalate fight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In image made from pool video, Queen Elizabeth II speaks with Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi in the garden of Buckingham Palace in London, Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Subtitles as appears on source video. (Image from Pool Video via AP Video)

Queen Elizabeth II: Chinese officials were ‘very rude’

By Danica Kirka and Gregory Katz - Associated Press