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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]
Boko Haram has kidnapped large numbers of children on several occasions. This has led to Boko Haram members physically, psychologically and sexually abusing them, using and selling them as sex slaves and/or brides of forced marriages with their fighters. [315] – the most famous example being the Chibok kidnapping in 2014.
Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency is the chronology of the Boko Haram insurgency, an ongoing armed conflict between Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram (including their offshoot Ansaru) and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram have carried out many attacks against the military, police and civilians since 2009, mostly in
Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said. A Boko Haram ...
Boko Haram has fought an armed rebellion in Nigeria's Northeast, which the U.N. says has killed more than 35,000 people. With a reputation for brutality, the group has been accused of torture ...
Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. [50] Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups. [48] [49] The killings have been referred to as a silent ...
Boko haram attack in Borno state. Shekau was reported killed in 2009 but reappeared as the group leader less than a year later. [37] The Nigerian army in mid-August 2013 stated that he was fatally wounded when soldiers raided a base of Boko Haram in Sambisa forest and had died between 25 July and 3 August. [38]
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the group started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria.. ISWAP claimed that the men of the village were "supporting and coordinating" with the Nigerian army and therefore labeled them as "apostates", heading to the village to commit this massacre.