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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
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.
Boko Haram (until March 2015) Multinational Joint Task Force victory: Invasion of the Gambia (2017) Dalori attack Senegal Nigeria Ghana Mali Togo Coalition 2016 Gambia MFDC: Victory. Yahya Jammeh steps down peacefully, minimal combat between the two sides. Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020) Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) Nigeria Niger ...
On 4 November 2011, a series of coordinated shootings and suicide bombings on northern Nigerian cities killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds more. A spokesperson for the Sunni Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram later claimed responsibility and promised "more attacks are on the way."
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]
Several Boko Haram "top fighters" outright defected. [15] According to an alleged insider account, up to 70% of Boko Haram's qaids (senior commanders) had secretly sided with ISWAP by the time of the operation. [16] One group of Boko Haram loyalists, counting "dozens" according to al-Naba, holed up at the well defendable Ghowbra camp. ISWAP ...
Boko Haram Islamic State's West Africa Province. Several minor factions [29] Ansaru [a] Supported by: al-Qaeda [34] AQIM [35] [36] [37] Al-Shabaab [38] Taliban [39] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (from 2015) [40] 2009 2009 2009 Boko Haram uprising. Part of the Boko Haram insurgency Nigeria: Boko Haram: 2009 Ongoing South Yemen insurgency ...
The jihadists' invasion was halted by Nigerien FDS located between Bagara and Diffa, sparking battles. [5] The Boko Haram fighters conducted the attack with fifteen to twenty vehicles. [4] [5] While the attack was repelled by the Nigerien forces, thousands of panicked civilians fled the area in anticipation of more attacks. [5]