[Africa Renewal] In a pre-recorded address on Thursday to the UN General Assembly, Mahamadou Issoufou, the President of Niger, stressed that only international action can restore security in the strife-torn African regions of the Sahel and Lake Chad ...

[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African contin...

[Premium Times] The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, on Thursday, said that the Nigerian government will soon resume oil exploration activities in the Lake Chad region.

[This Day] Maiduguri -- The federal government last Wednesday said the crude oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin will commence soon.

[The Point] In Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, the author Alexander Thurston, an African studies professor at Georgetown University, systematically examines the movement's origins and offers a comprehensive discussion of the ...