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  2. Nigeria courts convict 125 Boko Haram Islamist insurgents in ...

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    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 ...

  3. Tarmuwa massacre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack ...

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    Boko Haram, with one branch allied to the Islamic State group, wants to install an Islamic state in Nigeria, West Africa’s oil giant of 170 million people divided almost equally between a mainly ...

  5. Nigeria to free 313 suspected Boko Haram insurgents for lack ...

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    Nigeria's military will free more than 300 people suspected of being part of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency after a court ruled there was no evidence they committed any crimes, a defence ...

  6. Boko Haram insurgency - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Boko Haram - Wikipedia

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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 a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. [13]

  8. 2015 Baga massacre - Wikipedia

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    Baga, in Borno State, was the location of a Nigerian Army base that was the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), an international force of soldiers from Nigeria, Niger and Chad that was formed in 1994 to deal with cross-border security issues and, more recently, combating the Boko Haram insurgency.

  9. Koshebe massacre - Wikipedia

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    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]