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Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād[22] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad '), [23] is an Islamist terrorist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon ...
Over 90 as of 30 June 2023 [ 1 ] t. On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Prior to the raid, the school had been closed ...
The Boko Haram insurgency began in July 2009, [ 79 ][ 80 ] when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. [ 54 ][ 81 ] The conflict is taking place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria 's Muslim and Christian communities ...
Abu Mohammed Abubakar al-Sheikawi (also known by the alias Darul Akeem wa Zamunda Tawheed, or Darul Tawheed; "the abode of monotheism"; 1974 [1] – 19 May 2021) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from 2009 to 2021. [2][3] He served as deputy leader to the ...
2009. 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.
Contents. Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapping. On February 19, 2018, at 5:30 pm, 110 schoolgirls aged 11–19 years old were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls' Science and Technical College (GGSTC). Dapchi is located in Bulabulin, Bursari Local Government area of Yobe State, in the northeast part of Nigeria. [ 1 ...
Date. 30–31 October 2023. Deaths. 37. Injured. 7. Perpetrators. Boko Haram. In late October 2023, two terrorist attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram occurred in Yobe State, Nigeria a day apart, killing at least 37 people and injuring 7.
The militant group Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful", has targeted schools for violent attacks on a number of occasions. [4] The group has been officially labeled a terrorist organization in Nigeria and the United States, and large rewards have been offered for information leading to the capture of the group's leadership.