Adamu Abubakar

A suicide bomber who tried to ram an explosives-packed car into a Nigerian church on Sunday killed a woman and an eight-year-old boy, while wounding dozens more, the Red Cross and police said.

A suicide bomber who tried to ram an explosives-packed car into a church in Nigeria on Sunday killed a woman and a child while badly wounding dozens more, the Red Cross said.

Gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist sect late Sunday shot dead at least six people who were playing the game ludo in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, the Red Cross said.

A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed at least nine people, including himself, and injured 35, officials said.

A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed at least nine people, including himself, and injured 35, officials said.

Cholera strikes West Africa as heavy rains carry disease throughout villages, killing hundreds. Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months.

More than 200 killed after religious violence flares again in central Nigeria; Hundreds flee. Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.

Eleven children aged between five and 13 were being held at a juvenile jail in northern Nigeria Monday awaiting trial following sectarian clashes that left 70 people dead last month, police said.

Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on Wednesday.

LAGOS (Reuters) - The death toll from clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of an Islamic sect in the northern city of Bauchi has risen to 40 but calm has returned, the Red Cross and police said on Wednesday.

Dozens more bodies were recovered Wednesday after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed.

Thirty-three people died in clashes between joint military-police forces and suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Monday.

Thirty-three people died in clashes between joint military-police forces and suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Monday.

Thirty-three people died in clashes between military and police forces and suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Monday.