The death toll has risen to 50 after a suicide bombing at a mosque in northern Nigeria during morning prayers, police have said.

Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 380 people in the Lake Chad region since April, a major resurgence of attacks that has doubled the casualties compared with the previous five months, Amnesty International said.

Residents in Nigeria's northern Borno state say attacks by Boko Haram extremists on several villages in the past week have killed at least 27 people.

At least eight people are dead after female suicide bombers attacked two displaced persons camps in north-eastern Nigeria's main city, Maiduguri.

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers by dozens of young women in north-eastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram's deadly insurgency.

Nineteen people have been killed in a series of attacks by Boko Haram suicide bombers, police in Nigeria said.

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The 82 young women released by Boko Haram extremists earlier this month are joining those already freed in a special rehabilitation programme, Nigerian officials have said.

The 82 Nigerian schoolgirls recently released after more than three years held hostage by Boko Haram are being reunited with their families for the first time.

The names of the 82 Chibok schoolgirls newly freed from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria have been released.

Five Boko Haram commanders have been released in exchange for the freedom of 82 Chibok schoolgirls, a Nigerian government official said.

The president of Nigeria is to meet with 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed this weekend after being kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram.

More Chibok schoolgirls have been released three years after their abduction by Boko Haram extremists, though the exact number is not immediately known, Nigerian officials said.

Boko Haram extremists are actively planning to kidnap western foreign workers in north-east Nigeria, according to the US and UK governments.

Nigeria's president has missed his weekly cabinet meeting for the third straight time as concerns mounted about his health, while his wife took to Twitter to defend him.

Nigerian security officials say they have thwarted plans by Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain.

The risk of mass deaths from starvation is growing in parts of east Africa, Yemen and Nigeria due to a combination of conflict, drought and a shortfall in humanitarian aid, it has been warned.

A dog at a Nigerian wedding party grappled with a suicide bomber until her explosives detonated, killing the animal as well.

The United Nations needs €4bn by the end of March to prevent devastating hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, yet just €86m has been collected so far, the world body's chief has said.

More than half a million children in the west African area wracked by Boko Haram extremists are so malnourished their lives could be in danger unless they get aid, a UN humanitarian official has said.

A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers, a state official said.

Boko Haram's leader has urged his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere" in a new video which denies Nigerian government claims that his Islamic extremist group has been crushed.

Nigerian officials prevented kidnapped girls freed from more than two years of captivity by Boko Haram Islamic extremists from spending Christmas at home with their families, according to a lawyer.

The Boko Haram extremist group has been driven from its last forest stronghold with fighters on the run and nowhere to hide, Nigeria's president said.

Nearly half a million children will face starvation in north-eastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die unless they receive treatment, amid the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, the United Nations' children's agency has warned.

Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds of people to flee as they loot and burn in the area, local leaders have said.

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Twin explosions from female suicide bombers suspected to be with Boko Haram have killed nine people and injured 24 in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, officials and witnesses said.

Some 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamic extremists more than two years ago have been freed in negotiations, officials said.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and other commanders of the Islamic extremist movement have been killed by an air strike, according to Nigeria's military.

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Boko Haram has murdered 600 teachers and displaced 19,000 in an effort to stop children getting the education they need to break the cycle of poverty, writes AnneMarie McCarthy       

Extremist group Boko Haram killed seven military police and injured three others in an attack on a barracks in south east Niger, witnesses said on Saturday.

A second girl believed to be among those kidnapped by Islamic extremists from a school in Nigeria has been rescued, the military said.

The first kidnapped schoolgirl to escape from Islamic extremist group Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa Forest has been flown to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to meet the country’s president.

The first of more than 200 schoolgirls missing for over two years after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Chibok in northeast Nigeria has been found, a parents group and local officials said.