Two Boko Haram terrorist suspects escaped a pending arrest after a raid on the home they were residing in resulted in a bloody gun battle between them and a team of joint security operatives, which lasted for hours, leaving one of the security personnel dead.
Though headquartered in northern Nigeria, the Islamic jihadist group Boko Haram has been wreaking devastation in neighboring regions as well, and in the last six months has abducted some 1,500 children from Cameroon, according to recent UN reports.
Boko Haram militants are suspected of being behind a blast from two suicide bombers that killed 31 civilians Thursday evening in Yola, the capital city of Adamawa State on Nigeria’s eastern border.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed his new government will investigate the military in response to an extensive Amnesty International Report claiming that thousands of Boko Haram suspects, some as young as nine years old, were tortured, starved, or extrajudicially executed in the past five years.
Boko Haram has released a new video under the Islamic State in West Africa moniker, in which they display the alleged remains of a Nigerian military jet and claim the Sambisa Forest raid last month did little to weaken their operation.
Boko Haram has executed its first bombings and village attacks in the new tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari over the weekend, striking both small villages and the marketplace at Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state.
VICE NEWS: Boko Haram militants reportedly fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) during an attack early Saturday morning in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri that left at least 30 people dead. A suicide bomber also targeted a mosque near the city’s main market on Saturday afternoon, reportedly killing at least 16 people.
After years of political apathy toward the beleaguered Nigerian northeast, hardest hit by the jihadist group Boko Haram, recently elected President Muhammadu Buhari is invigorating Nigerians with promises of determined military action against their enemy.
General Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated as president of Nigeria Friday in the nation’s capital, delivering a speech in which he vowed to fight “official bungling” and eliminate the presence of terror group Boko Haram in the nation.
A Spanish court has filed a formal complaint against the Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, citing the principle of universal justice, after discovering a Spanish victim of the group: a nun who was accosted in 2013 by terrorists belonging to the group.
Multiple Nigerian and international news outlets are reporting that the nation has fired between 200-290 soldiers for alleged “cowardice” while conducting operations against jihadist terror group Boko Haram, a sacking numerous soldiers are protesting as unfair, as they were improperly armed and directed during said operations, they claim.
“Children are not instigating these suicide attacks; they are used intentionally by adults in the most horrific way,” explained Jean Gough, the UNICEF Representative in Nigeria. “They are first and foremost victims – not perpetrators.”
Evidence of a global Islamist insurgency is mounting, as Nigerian government forces recover captured video footage showing foreign fighters at the top of terrorist group Boko Haram. It has long been suspected that the hard-line Boko Haram followers, who have
Women and children freed from captivity under the jihadist terror group Boko Haram are being held at an undisclosed location by the Nigerian military after accusing each other of continuing to communicate with and work for the terrorist group. Nigerian officials claim they have been relocated to an undisclosed location for more focused therapy to help them work through their trauma.
Obama explained that the United States armed forces would now have to factor in climate change in upcoming missions. “You need to be ready,” he said to the graduates.
A young Nigerian female suicide bomber detonated herself up in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, at a market near a bus station. She killed at least seven people.
With all due respect to Nigerian media, it should be noted that at the time of this writing, only Nigerian outlets seem to be reporting on the alleged death of five Boko Haram militants in Mosul, Iraq, where they were said to be training with Islamic State fighters.
As the Nigerian army rescues more and more women from captivity from the Islamic jihadist group Boko Haram, abortion-rights groups have swooped in, seeking to instrumentalize the crisis to advance their agenda of abortion and population control.
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists stormed barracks in the regional capital of Borno, Maiduguri, on Wednesday night, killing three soldiers and six vigilantes, as well as injuring 12 others who successfully thwarted the attack. It is the most ambitious attempt at storming the city, formerly Boko Haram’s headquarters, since March 14, and has left the city under a 24-hour lockdown.
Over 11,000 Nigerians have returned from Niger since fleeing radical Islamist group Boko Haram. The majority of those fleeing previously lived in areas Boko Haram terrorized the most.
The President of Chad, Idriss Deby, visited the Nigerian capital Abuja today to meet with both outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect Muhammadu Buhari on how to best jointly combat the looming threat of Boko Haram. Speaking to reporters, Deby lamented that cooperation with Nigeria could use improvement, and that such coordination has been a problem in the past.
As the Nigerian government struggles to provide sustenance and treatment to the estimated 700 hostages freed from Boko Haram in early May, women who escaped the throes of the terrorist group during its raid of a girls’ school in Chibok are offering their support and empathy, having once been captives themselves.
Africans are slowly returning to Nigeria as Boko Haram continues to lose ground. But the task of repatriating is a challenging one: The neighboring NigerRepublic has begun deporting Nigerian refugees.
A gunman and suicide bomber believed to be affiliated with the jihadist terror group Boko Haram attacked northern Nigeria’s College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum on Friday, injuring several students struggling to escape the blast and bringing into question Nigerian military claims that Boko Haram’s grip on the nation’s north is loosening.
According to a U.N.-endorsed report from the Norwegian Refugee Council, 38 million people were displaced by conflicts around the world in 2014, including 2.2 million Iraqis forced from their homes by the rise of the Islamic State.
