Sources: U.S. News and World Report
The death toll from the ongoing floods across Nigeria, which started in early summer, increases to more than 600. 2022-10-17
Bandits attack villages in the Bakura and Talata Mafura local government areas of Nigeria. Many people are killed. 2022-03-29
At least 29 people, mostly schoolchildren, drown after an overloaded boat capsizes in Bagwai, Kano State, Nigeria. 2021-12-1
Seventy-three children are abducted by armed men at a rural secondary school in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The government of Zamfara State has closed all public schools in order to prevent similar attacks. 2021-09-1
Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina pleads to world leaders and the international community to help combat climate change amid a situation of food insecurity with some people on the verge of famine in the southern region of Madagascar. Rajoelina highlights the "urgency" in addressing the issue. 2021-07-16
The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, warns of a "biblical" famine due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and says that the disaster already exists in Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen, while also warning that conditions are of "particular concern" in Nigeria and Burkina Faso. 2021-06-30
Around 20 armed robbers attack a police station with guns and a bank with dynamite in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. The shooting kills nine and the explosion kills seven. 2018-04-5
Islamist terror group Boko Haram kills at least 33 security personnel during attacks in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State. 2014-05-26
12 Nigerian policemen are missing and presumed dead after their boat was ambushed by militants in the Niger Delta region. 2013-04-7
In Nigeria, the Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, is controversially re-elected. 2010-02-7