boko haram insurgency

Twin suicide blasts on Sunday killed at least nine people in far northern Cameroon, a day after 41 died in triple explosions in Chad that were blamed on Boko Haram.

The attack was staged Saturday in a rice field in Garin Kwashebe, a Borno community known for rice farming, on the day residents of the state were casting votes for the first time in 13 years to elect local government councils, though many didn't go to cast their ballots.

Cameroon has deported more than 2,000 Nigerians who were living in the country illegally as part of new security measures intended to prevent suicide attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, sources said.

Boko Haram activists raided a border village in Niger, killing four people and torching some 50 homes, a local official said today.

Two women suicide bombers killed 15 people, including themselves, on Wednesday in northeast Nigeria at a mosque in the compound of a government workers' housing estate and at another location there.

Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Sambisa Forest enclave, some girls with babies from forced marriages, including Hajara Umara with children, during a dayslong military operation, some insurgents killed, their makeshift houses destroyed. boko haram insurgency since 2009 aims for Islamic Shariah law, causing displacement of 2.1 million people.

Nigeria is willing to talk to Boko Haram about securing the release of 223 schoolgirls still held hostage by the Islamists, special duties minister Taminu Turaki said on Tuesday.

Boko Haram gunmen killed 35 people in attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast Borno state near the border with Cameroon, a military source and residents said on today.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out freeing Boko Haram prisoners in exchange for the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, British minister Mark Simmonds said on Wednesday.

Boko Haram militants ambushed a military convoy near the Cameroon border on Thursday, leaving five Nigerian soldiers dead and several others injured. The convoy triggered a mine and exploded, following which the militants started firing on it. Although Gwoza was recaptured by Nigerian forces in 2015, Boko Haram still carries out raids on nearby villages from their mountain hideouts, forcing locals to flee to nearby towns.

More than 200 schoolgirls today began their second month as Boko Haram hostages, with Nigeria's government indicating it was willing to talk to the militants to secure their release.

Northeastern Nigeria's governors are urging the government to adopt a new strategy against a resurgence of Islamist militant attacks. Recent violence, claiming over 100 lives, has prompted calls for a reappraisal of counter-insurgency tactics.

In northeastern Nigeria's Yobe state, suspected Boko Haram extremists killed at least 100 villagers, targeting a market and homes. Conflicting death tolls have been reported, with community leaders confirming 102 deaths. President Tinubu condemned the attack but did not introduce new security measures to address the persistent violence.

The collapse of the Alau dam in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, has led to severe flooding, evacuations, and released deadly reptiles into communities. Heavy rains caused the dam to overflow, submerging parts of Maiduguri. This disaster adds to the ongoing humanitarian crisis fueled by boko haram insurgency. Schools are closed for two weeks as a precaution.

Islamic State-allied Boko Haram jihadists have killed another kidnapped female Red Cross worker in northeast Nigeria, the agency said on Tuesday, a month after militants murdered one of her colleagues. Three female health workers were kidnapped on March 1 during a Boko Haram raid on the remote town of Rann, in Borno state, that killed three other aid workers and eight Nigerian soldiers.

At least 21 people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowds at a Shia Muslim procession near the north Nigerian city of Kano, in the latest violence to hit the troubled region.

Hundreds of women and girls captured by Boko Haram have been raped, many repeatedly, in what officials and relief workers describe as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants in Nigeria.

The Nigerian army says 335 Boko Haram extremists, including two top commanders, have laid down their arms and withdrawn from the sect in response to a military offensive in the northeast.

The 276 schoolgirls, mostly aged between 16 and 18, were herded at gunpoint through the forest to waiting trucks after the militants set fire to the school buildings. Within hours of the abductions, 57 girls managed to escape. Some hid in the bushes, while others jumped out as they drove through the dark night of the Sambisa Forest that had become Boko Haram's hideout.

At least 38 people were killed in a pre-dawn attack by armed men on Dutse Dan Ajiya village in Nigeria's Zamfara State. Local authorities reported the remote village, with limited access, was besieged by 'bandits' who opened fire indiscriminately. This incident highlights the ongoing violence in the region despite military deployments.

In Borno, Nigeria, a devastating attack by Boko Haram's JAS faction resulted in at least 57 deaths and over 70 missing from two villages, with victims accused of being informants for ISWAP.

In an announcement on Nigerian state TV, NTA, Katsina State Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said the 344 boarding school students were turned over to security officials and were being brought to the state capital, where they will get physical examinations before being reunited with their families.

Nigeria's military on Sunday announced that troops had retaken the town of Gwoza from Boko Haram, from which the group declared their caliphate last year.

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