Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency reported yesterday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.

Investigators in Mali were yesterday hunting at least three people suspected of links to the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead.

Gun-toting jihadists took more than 100 people hostage for around nine hours at a top hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate that left at least 27 people dead.

At least 27 people were reported dead yesterday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many of them foreigners, trapped in the building.

An African jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda claims responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in the Malian capital Bamako.

The High Court rejects a writ petition challenging the legality of holding offices of minister and lawmaker by Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya after the Supreme Court scrapped his acquittal in a corruption case.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return home from London on Saturday.

For the first time in its history, the government yesterday temporarily shut down the internet in Bangladesh, affecting businesses and services heavily dependent on the digital network. The government said the internet was shut down “mistakenly”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the construction works of the main parts of Padma Multipurpose Bridge before the Victory Day on December 16, says Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader.

Nigeria yesterday finally got a new government after more than five months of waiting, as 36 ministers and junior ministers swore the oath of allegiance and

Police arrested three young men with 700 Yaba tablets and 50 kilograms of hemp in Nachole upazila of the district on Monday morning.

The Supreme Court extends till January 31 its order that had stayed the process for holding Tangail-4 by-polls. It asks High Court to hear and dispose of a rule issued over the nomination of Krishak Shramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique by this time.

At least 12 people were killed in the Somali capital yesterday after Shebab gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their

Gonojagoron Mancha calls a countrywide six-hour hartal from 6:00am to 12:00pm on Tuesday to protest killing of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and attack on three others.

Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions start fast unto death demanding inclusion of their institutions in the government’s Monthly Pay Order (MPO) facility.

Law enforcers arrest 15 people from different areas in Dhaka suspected of involvement in leakage of question papers for admission to Dhaka University and Jagannath University.

A schoolteacher was beaten to death by his brother over land dispute at Char Kamaria Bhatipara village in Gafargaon upazila of the district

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife last year.

Two bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria have left at least 42 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.