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Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād [24] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), [25] is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. [13]
On 27 March, the Nigerian army captured Gwoza, which was believed to be the location of Boko Haram headquarters. [161] On election day, 28 March, Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, to discourage hundreds from voting. [162] Niger Army soldiers during counter-insurgency operations against Boko Haram in March
Map showing the events of the raid, produced by the United States Armed Forces Damage to the school seen in the aftermath of the attack. On the night of 14 April 2014, members of the Islamic jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram [27] [28] attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, a majority Christian village.
Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist group opposed to what it considers to be the Westernization of Nigeria, which they have stated is the root cause of criminal behaviour in the country. [1] Thousands of people have been killed in attacks perpetrated by the group, and the federal government declared a state of emergency in May 2013 in Borno ...
The leader of Boko Haram at the time, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in Maiduguri, Borno State in 2009. Boko Haram has killed more than 30,000 since 2009. [6] An attack near the village of Gubio in June 2020 resulted in 81 deaths. [6] In October 2020, Boko Haram carried out two separate attacks in fields near Maiduguri, slitting the throats of 22 ...
Boko Haram rose to prominence in northwestern Nigeria in the early 2010's, growing to control territory in Borno State, southern Niger, and northern Cameroon.In 2021, the Islamic State - West Africa Province, which formed from ex-Boko Haram groups, launched an offensive that saw the death of Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau and ISWAP dominating former Boko Haram strongholds. [2]
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These groups include Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan, [3] Boko Haram, [32] the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, [33] the Caucasus Emirate, [34] Abu Sayyaf, [35] Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, [36] the Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade, and Al-Shabaab. [37] The first instance of the conflict was during the rise of the Islamic State in northern and western Iraq in 2014.