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[5] [17] The police also executed other Boko Haram suspects, including Yusuf's father-in-law, outside the police headquarters. [5] [17] On 2 August, a group of women and children abducted by Boko Haram were found locked in a house in Maiduguri. [18] The military said a total of 700 people were killed in Maiduguri during the clashes. [18]
The Boko Haram insurgency began in July 2009, [78] [79] when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. [ 54 ] [ 80 ] The conflict is taking place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria 's Muslim and Christian communities, and ...
26–29 July – 2009 Boko Haram uprising – Nearly 1,000 people were killed in clashes between Boko Haram militants and Nigerian soldiers in four locations in the northern Nigeria – Bauchi in Bauchi State, Maiduguri in Borno State, Potiskum in Yobe State and Wudil in Kano State – beginning the Boko Haram insurgency.
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]
Since the 2009 Boko Haram uprising in northern Nigeria, [5] thousands of people have been killed and thousands more wounded in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. [3] 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]
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This movement eventually became Boko Haram, and Bakura stayed loyal to the group during and after the 2009 uprising. [1] After Yusuf's death and the rise of his successor Abubakar Shekau, [5] Bakura fought for Boko Haram in the escalating rural insurgency. Even though he lacked a background in religious Islamic studies, he started to climb in ...
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād [23] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), [24] is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. [12]