VIDEO: BBC visits Boko Haram ghost towns

US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting South Sudan and has warned that more peacekeepers must be rapidly deployed to end the conflict.

The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, has told the BBC he has strong evidence that both sides in the conflict in South Sudan were involved in atrocities.

Wapiganaji wa kundi la Boko Haram.Ripoti kutoka kaskazini mashariki mwa Nigeria zinasema kuwa wanamgambo wa Boko Haram wameudhibiti mji wa Chibok , mji ambapo waliwateka nyara zaidi ya wasichana 200 mwezi Aprili.
Wenyeji walisema kuwa wanamgambo hao walivamia mji huo siku ya alhamisi na hadi sasa mji huo uko chini ya udhibiti wao.Seneta mmoja kutoka eno hilo ameiambia BBC kuwa wanajeshi waliokuwa wakiulinda mji huo walitoroka wakati wanamgambo hao walipofanya uvamizi.wasichana zaidi ya 200...

Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria on 14 April.

The story of how three girls abducted from Chibok, northern Nigeria, escaped their Boko Haram captors. To protect the girls' identity their story is portrayed as an animation.

Some of the girls who managed to escape from Boko Haram in northern Nigeria are to restart their education in the United States.

BBC News outlines the background, leadership and activities of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.

A Nigerian woman describes how she gave birth during two months living under the control of Boko Haram.

Nigeria's militant Islamists release a new video without Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appearing in it, raising questions about his fate.