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The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa (Arabic: جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان Jamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān), [13] better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, [9] is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northeast of Nigeria.
On the afternoon of April 5, Ansaru gunmen, allegedly coming from Niger State, attacked a military base in the Polwire area, near the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari road. [4] [5] A soldier stationed at the base stated that the gunmen arrived on motorbikes, carrying RPGs and other weapons, killing eleven soldiers and injuring four more. [6]
After going silent in 2013, Ansaru began attacking Nigerian military and police personnel and infrastructure, [59] including an ambush of a Nigerian military convoy on 15 January 2020. [60] Due to Nigeria having large ungoverned Forest by successive government most of these terrorist and bandit groups have turned some forests in the Northern ...
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February 2015 Nigeria bombings – A male suicide bomber killed 17 people at a bus station in Potiskum. [80] February 2015 Nigeria bombings - Two male suicide bombers killed 10 people at a bus station in Kano. [80] Chadian soldiers killed over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Gamboru, close to the Cameroon-Nigeria border. A ...
Since 2006, militant groups in Nigeria's Niger Delta, especially the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have resorted to taking foreign employees of oil companies hostage as part of the conflict in the Niger Delta. More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped since 2006, though most were released unharmed.
Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23 March 1973 – 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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He served as deputy leader to the group's founder, Mohammed Yusuf , until Yusuf's execution in 2009.
9 March - Nigerian militant group Ansaru announced that it has killed seven foreigners that were being held hostage. 10 March - Nigerian militants belonging to Ansar al-Muslimeen claimed the responsibility to kidnapping and killing Italian, Greek, and British construction workers in Northern Nigeria.