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On July 1, 2015, Boko Haram gunmen stormed the village of Kukawa, in Borno State and killed 97 people. According to an anonymous senior government official, the militants targeted mosques, which they believed taught a form of Islam that was too moderate. [2]
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]
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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]
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.
Ansaru's exact origin is unclear, but it is known that the group emerged as a faction of Boko Haram, an extremist Islamist movement that launched an uprising against the Nigerian government in 2009. The initial rebellion failed, whereupon parts of the movement fled to Algeria and Somalia , where they found shelter among al-Qaeda-linked ...
[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]
He initially worked in the informal economy, and joined the religious movement of Mohammed Yusuf. 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 ...