Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria's Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The year was ...

NNEWI, Nigeria (AP) – The late leader of Nigeria’s breakaway Republic of Biafra received final honors Friday from a nation he once fought bitterly against in a war that saw 1 million people killed.

The Nigerian Civil War was an iconically gruesome conflict, recorded in the newly ubiquitous medium of color television and the photographs of Don McCullin. Its immediate origins lay in a military ...

NNEWI, Nigeria, March 2 (Reuters) - Nigerians on Friday buried the leader of the Biafra separatist rebellion, which tipped the country into a 1967-70 civil war that killed an estimated 1 million ...

Like most other stages of the Nigerian civil war, the federal forces’ much heralded “final offensive” against the breakaway territory of Biafra has proceeded more slowly and tortuously than scheduled.

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 54, No. 3, Special Issue: Africa's Relations with Socialist Countries during the Cold War (2021), pp. 333-354 (22 pages) From the late ...

These powerful books help us understand a complicated time in our history, and the political and personal legacy that it still carries. 10 powerful books that explore the legacy of the Biafran War The ...

ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after a civil war in which a million people died, 27-year-old Okoli Ikedi is part of a new protest movement in southeastern Nigeria calling for an ...

It found that Simon Ekpa had attempted to promote the independence of the so-called Biafra region of Nigeria by illegal means ...

Supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have repeatedly used disinformation to advance their secessionist cause ...