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Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers ...
Boko Haram. Motive. Jihadism. On 22 November 2022, at least ten Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack reportedly carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram. [1] The attack occurred near Ngouboua in the Lake Chad area. [2][3]
Battle of Sambisa Forest (2021) In May 2021, the Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) launched an invasion of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, Nigeria, which was serving as the main base of Boko Haram, a rival jihadist rebel group. Following heavy fighting, ISWAP overran the Boko Haram troops, cornering their leader Abubakar Shekau.
On August 1, 2020, Boko Haram militants attacked an IDP camp in Nguetchewe, also in Cameroon's Far North Region. The attack killed nineteen people, mostly refugees, and many residents of the camp fled Nguetchewe following the attack due to fears about their safety. Some of the refugees made their way to the refugee camps in Kouyape, neat the ...
6 June – Ten fisherman are killed by Boko Haram in Darak, Cameroon. [142] 12 June – Four women were killed by 14 assailants after being dragged outside of their homes in Mairari, Nigeria. [145] 14 June – 10 fishermen were killed by militants, and soon after 42 more were killed by Boko Haram at Lake Chad in Cameroon. [146]
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 ...
By Tansa Musa (Reuters) - The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister was kidnapped and at least three people were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants on in the northern town of Kolofata on ...
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād[ 22 ] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad '), [ 23 ] is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and ...