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Tue, May 31: The shooting of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo has sparked debate on whether it was the right thing to do. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, Granby Zoo is the only place in Quebec that has gorillas, and officials say they’re ready to respond in an emergency.

The zoo keeper who raised Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed last week after a four year old boy got into his enclosure, said on Monday he was devastated after learning of the animal’s death.

A teenage girl taken by Boko Haram more than two years ago was found with a baby wandering near a forest. She’s reported to have been reunited with her mother. Don Champion has the story.

The Nigerian air force killed civilians and aid workers by accident in an air strike aimed at Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a military official said.

Nigeria’s air force killed 50 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a camp for displaced persons, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. The military said the strike had targeted Boko Haram.

There were hugs and tears of joy as 21 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram were reunited with their families Sunday in Nigeria.

Sun, Jun 1: She had been working as a missionary. The extremist group Boko Haram is suspected of being behind the kidnappings.

Members of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls Campaign’ held a prayer vigil on Wednesday at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC for the more than 270 schoolgirls held captive by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram.

A regional militia allied with Nigerian government forces freed on Friday almost 900 children it had used in the war against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.

More than 300 schoolboys who had been kidnapped in northern Nigeria were handed over to government security agents on Thursday, the governor of Katsina state said. Terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the kidnapping in an unverified audio recording.

Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard explains the decision to shoot Harambe over darting him after a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla’s enclosure on Saturday. “If you were to say dart your household pet, receive a dart yourself, it’d be pretty dramatic response, and if you were an animal like a gorilla that didn’t understand...

Islamic extremist group Boko Haram struck three separate villages in Nigeria on Saturday killing 86 people including children.

It’s been two years since more than 270 Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped by extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. Most are still missing. But a new video released Sunday by Boko Haram allegedly shows proof of life.

Leading Nigerian activist Aisha Oyebode has been actively involved in the campaign for the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists from their secondary school in northeastern Nigeria.

Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.

Fri, Nov 7: Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in east Jerusalem on Friday amid rising tensions over the Jerusalem shrine, known to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Israeli soldiers used tear gas to disperse the protesters.

More than two months after Islamic militants kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian girls from their boarding school, witnesses say Boko Haram has taken more captives.

Large areas of Nigerian towns attacked by Islamic extremists were razed to the ground in a widespread campaign of destruction, according to satellite images released Thursday by Amnesty International.

The spokesman for the parents of kidnapped Chibok girls appealed to the Nigerian government on Tuesday to take care of the health and education of the recently freed group of girls.The 21 Chibok girls freed last week in the first negotiated release between Nigeria’s government and Boko Haram militants were reunited with their parents on...

Members from the Bring Back Our Girls campaign group expressed their excitement over the release of at least 82 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014 by Boko Haram militants.