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The UN added Boko Haram (a.k.a. Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad) to its list of al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups, stating that it is an affiliate of both al Qaeda and its north African offshoot, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The designation noted that Boko Haram is also associated with Ansaru (a.k.a. Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina […]

Boko Haram militants burned the Borno state village of Dalwa-Masuba to the ground over the weekend and killed at least 40 residents. Police foiled a car bombing today in Kano; a suicide car bombing yesterday killed at least four people and wounded many more in a mainly Christian neighborhood. Security was stepped up around secondary […]

The Army rejected the accusation that it had four hours’ warning before Boko Haram’s abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Borno on April 14. President Jonathan said he thinks the girls are still in Nigeria and have not been moved to Cameroon. Experts from the US and the UK have arrived in Nigeria to help […]

Boko Haram militants in armored vehicles stormed the town of Gamboru Ngala in Borno near the Cameroon border, killing at least 300 people, and burning down 200 vehicles and nearly all of the houses and shops, in a 12-hour rampage. Security forces guarding the town had withdrawn shortly before the attack, allegedly to pursue a […]

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight schoolgirls in Warabe, in Borno state near the Cameroon border; senior Boko Haram commander Mamman Nur, who reportedly trained with Shabaab, operates in the area. The Army spokesman said some of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are the daughters of defense headquarters personnel. Police recovered a […]

A suspected Boko Haram suicide car bombing killed 30 people and injured scores more in Abuja. A negotiator for the Boko Haram militants who have kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls said the kidnappers are demanding a ransom and that the military knows their location; some reports said the girls had been taken to Chad or Cameroon. […]

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video claiming the April 14 attack in the capital city of Abuja that killed over 75 people; he did not mention the 85 missing schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram earlier this week. President Jonathan sharply denounced Adamawa state governor Murtala Nyak for declaring to other northern governors that […]

A car bomb detonated at a busy bus station in a suburb of Abuja, the nation’s capital, killing at least 88 people and wounding over 200. Boko Haram is suspected in the attack, in which 16 buses were destroyed. Boko Haram militants also killed at least 60 people yesterday in attacks in two villages near […]

At least 20 people were killed when suspected Boko Baram militants detonated a bomb at a busy market in Bama in Borno state yesterday. Two days earlier, the terror group reportedly attacked a market in nearby Nguro Soye, killing as many as 30 people. Secondary schools in Borno have been closed indefinitely due to Boko […]

Boko Haram militants launched yet another attack in Borno state, killing as many as 40 people in the village of Jakana in Konduga, then retreated into the Sambisa forest. Nigerian authorities paraded seven Boko Haram militants suspected of murdering a moderate Muslim cleric in Kaduna state on Feb. 1; among them was Yakub Abdullahi, a […]

The Nigerian military closed the border between Adamawa state and Cameroon to prevent the infiltration of Islamist militants; the border has not been closed in neighboring Borno state. Hundreds of travelers turned off the road near Damaturu in Yobe state after reports that Boko Haram was blocking a 50-mile stretch of road into Maiduguri in […]

Several hundred suspected Boko Haram fighters killed over 100 people in separate attacks near the Cameroon border in the villages of Baga and Izge in Borno state. The Nigerian military had begun aerial bombardments on Boko Haram hideouts in the nearby Sambisa forest, after an attack in Konduga, another Borno village, on Feb. 11 that […]

President Jonathan has formally sworn in the new heads of the armed forces. At the ceremony, new Chief of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said he would end the Boko Haram insurgency before Nigerian general elections in 2015. Badeh has also issued a press statement claiming that his promise to end the insurgency by […]

Boko Haram attacked twice over the weekend; in Borno, the group killed 52 people in the town of Kawuri, and in Adamawa, the group killed 22 people in an assault on a church. The UNHCR claims that 6,000 people have fled northern Nigeria for Cameroon and Niger as a result of Boko Haram attacks.

The army claimed it killed at least 50 Boko Haram members fleeing towards Cameroon yesterday and destroyed over 20 of the group’s vehicles; 15 soldiers and five civilians are also said to have been killed in the clash. The army chief of staff testified that eight “squatters” killed by soldiers in Apo three months ago […]

A Borno state official accused Cameroonian authorities of habitually refusing to arrest or chase Boko Haram militants fleeing across the border after attacks in Nigeria. Borno has mobilized another 1,000 volunteers to join the controversial Civilian JTF. In Abuja, state security paraded five suspected Boko Haram members said to have been planning attacks in Kogi […]

President Jonathan extended the state of emergency in Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa states due to “security challenges”; the Adamawa state governor objected. A Nigerian official said Nigeria needs Cameroon’s help in order to “silence” Boko Haram; Cameroon claims to have already stepped up security along the Nigerian border. The UN said Boko Haram members could […]

The military claimed to have destroyed terrorist camps in Borno state and seized several vehicles used by Boko Haram. A captured Boko Haram member said the group had doctors, mechanics, welders, carpenters, professional drivers, “butchers, security experts, gun instructors and so on,” in its ranks, and that members from Chad, Cameroon, and Niger participate in […]