Iranian intelligence recruited the former minister in Africa, the Israeli authorities said. He already had a shady past as a convicted drug dealer.

President Muhammadu Buhari is on his fifth official visit to Britain to see a doctor there, angering striking health care workers in Nigeria who are seeking better working conditions and more funding.

Armed bandits overran a village in retaliation for an attack on them, officials said, part of the mounting violence shaking the country.

Officials said that at least 27 people were killed on Tuesday by suicide bombings in a region often targeted by Boko Haram insurgents, but the toll might be even higher.

A few months after President Trump’s disparaging comments roiled African nations, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria stuck to other topics in a White House visit.

The world knew them as teenagers, in dark robes with sad faces. We portrayed them in a different manner.

The New York Times met and photographed dozens of the students abducted by Boko Haram. Now at a university, they say they are the lucky ones. But their celebrity has a price.

Plagued by a mysterious ailment and the Boko Haram insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari, 75, said he would seek a second term next year.

Francis urged “reconciliation” in the Middle East and pressed for “the fruits of dialogue” to help address tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

A Nigerian spiritual leader has just done more to help trafficked sex workers than any international aid group.