When the south-east region of Nigeria declared itself to be the independent state of Biafra, civil war broke out in May 1967. More than a million people died before the fighting stopped. In 2021, ...

In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka tried to stop the country’s Biafra war, in which Nigeria’s Igbo people responded to violence by seceding from the rest of the country. They proclaimed a new ...

Fifty-three years after the Biafran War ended, the impact of the devastating Nigerian civil war remains mostly undercovered in the public imagination save for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 novel, ...

Editor's note: Fifty years ago, the Biafran War officially came to an end with the signing of the surrender documents by Gen. Philip Effiong, the administrator of Biafra, after Col. Chukwuemeka ...

A Nigerian court on Thursday jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life for "terrorism", ending a decade-old legal saga in which the prosecution sought the death penalty. "The death penalty ...

ENUGU, NigeriaENUGU, Nigeria — Slowly picking clean the beans he is trying to sell, Evaristus Nduka sadly surveys the nearly empty marketplace in Enugu, in southeastern Nigeria. Mondays are no longer ...

Onyii is all of 15, but she is battle-worn on every level. She sports a robotic arm — her human one was severed in conflict — and worries she’ll lose her sister, Ify, at any minute. As one of the ...

Nnamdi Kanu has been convicted for comments made in 2015 that the court said were a call to arms. The Biafra secession movement goes back to Nigeria's post-independence and a deadly civil war in the ...