“Boko Haram, a militant group that espouses an extreme and violent interpretation of Islam, benefits from this culture of impunity and lawlessness as it exploits Muslim-Christian tensions to destabilize Nigeria. Boko Haram also justifies its attacks on churches by citing, among other things, state and federal government actions against Muslims.” (USCIRF, 30 April 2013, p. 8)
“The group has primarily targeted police and other government security agents, Christians, and Muslims working for or accused of cooperating with the government.” (HRW, 31 January 2013)
“However, a dissident faction that rejects Shekau’s leadership emerged in January 2012, using the name Jama’atu Ansaril Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan (Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, or simply ‘Ansaru’) (Vanguard [Lagos], February 1, 2012). This new movement appears to coordinate its operations in Nigeria with the northern Mali-based al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA). […] When Ansaru first announced its existence publicly on January 26, 2012 by distributing fliers in Kano after Boko Haram attacks in the city killed approximately 150 Muslim civilians, media reports described Ansaru’s emergence as a reaction to the ‘loss of innocent Muslim lives’ (Vanguard, February 1, 2012). […] Despite Ansaru’s differences with Boko Haram, the group maintains that Ansaru and Boko Haram are like ‘al-Qaeda and the Taliban, pursuing similar objectives and engaging in the same struggle, but with different leaders’ (Desert Herald, June 5). Ansaru says its leader is Abu Usmatul al-Ansari, who appears with a veil covering his face in videos, and that its spokesman is Abu Jafa’ar, both of which are likely pseudonyms.” (Jamestown Foundation, 10 January 2013)
OVERVIEW
“Though latent for the better part of the past decade, since 2009 the group has waged a campaign of extremist, anti-government attacks across much of northern and central Nigeria. The insurgency killed over 550 people in 2011 in 115 separate attacks. In total, at least 2,800 deaths are at-tributable to Boko Haram’s violent and often rudimentary tactics; however, some reports suggest the death toll is closer to 4,000. In addition to targeting Nigerian Christians, government institutions and Muslims the group accuses of cooperating with the Nigerian government, the group coordinated an attack against the United Nations’ Abuja headquarters in August 2011, which killed 23 and wounded 81.” (NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre, 22 February 2013)
“In the first 10 months of 2012 alone, more than 900 people died in suspected attacks by the group—more than in 2010 and 2011 combined.” (HRW, 31 January 2013)
“More than 1,000 people were killed in attacks by Islamist armed group Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility for bombings and gun attacks across northern and central Nigeria. The group attacked police stations, military barracks, churches, school buildings and newspaper offices and killed Muslim and Christian clerics and worshippers, politicians and journalists, as well as police and soldiers.” (AI, 23 May 2013)
“The militant sect Boko Haram perpetrated numerous killings, bomb and suicide bomb attacks, prison breaks, and kidnappings throughout the country. During the year the sect expanded its campaign of assaults and bombings from Borno, Bauchi, and Yobe states to Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, and Taraba states. […] Government officials, civil society, and religious leaders on multiple occasions claimed to have initiated a dialogue with Boko Haram, but elements of the sect denied any involvement in such talks.” (USDOS, 19 April 2013)
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
For a chronology from June 2012 to April 2013, see the archived version of this featured topic:www.ecoi.net/en/document/249669.
JANUARY 2013
“Heavily armed gunmen killed four people in an attack Thursday that burnt a police station and a government building in a northeastern Nigerian town, police said. The gunmen attacked the police station in the town of Song near the border with Cameroon and engaged soldiers and police officers in a shootout, police spokesman Mohammed Ibrahim told AFP.” (AFP, 3 January 2013)
“Four people have been killed when a police station and local government office were destroyed by gunmen in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.” (BBC, 3 January 2013)
“Gunmen on a motorcycle killed three people on Monday when they opened fire on a group of Muslim worshippers in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, the latest such attack in the region, police said. […] Gunmen thought to belong to Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have done scores of such shootings in Nigeria's north, though criminal gangs also carry out violence under the guise of the group.” (AFP, 7 January 2013)
“The Nigerian military says it has arrested a leader of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. Mohammed Zangina was detained in the Government Reserved Area (GRA) of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri on Sunday afternoon, a statement said. Mr Zangina, also known as Mallam Abdullahi and Alhaji Musa, was planning "deadly attacks" against civilians and security personnel there, it added.” (BBC, 14 January 2013)
“Gunmen have killed at least four policemen in the last two days in attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which has been repeatedly hit by violence blamed on Islamists, authorities said. […] ’Two policemen lost their lives when some gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on their patrol van around 8:00 am today at Yanawaki area,’ police spokesman Magaji Majia told AFP. He said another policeman was seriously injured in the attack, the latest in the city where Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has been active. Majia said no arrests were made as the gunmen fled after the attack.” (AFP, 17 January 2013)
“Two suspected Islamists and two civilians were killed on Thursday in a shootout between gunmen and soldiers in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, a military spokesman said. A group of gunmen suspected to belong to the Boko Haram Islamist sect opened fire on a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Kano, leading to an hour-long shootout, Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi told AFP.” (AFP, 17 January 2013)
“Nigeria gunmen have attacked the convoy of the prominent religious leader, the Emir of Kano. The emir survived, but his driver and two guards were killed. No-one has admitted the attack, but suspicion is bound to fall on the militant group Boko Haram, which has previously killed Muslim clerics.” (BBC, 19 January 2013)
“’We are shocked. They shot at him from all sides just like hunting animals in the bush,’ says Abbas Sanusi, the emir's senior counsel. He says that they have no idea who might have been responsible for the attack. The words are chosen carefully. Even though many analysts suggest this was the work of the Islamist militant group popularly known as Boko Haram, palace officials do not draw this conclusion. It may be safer not to mention the Islamist militants at all.” (BBC, 7 February 2013)
“Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured in a 19 January attack on a military detachment heading for deployment in Mali, as part of Nigeria's contribution to a UN-sanctioned African intervention force to reclaim northern Mali from Islamists, military officials told IRIN. […] On 20 January the Islamist group Jama'atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan (JAMBS) - “Vanguard for the Aid of Muslims in Black Africa” - claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said was in response to Nigeria's participation in the military intervention in Mali. JAMBS splintered from Boko Haram in June 2012 and is believed by some to have close ties to Islamist groups in North Africa and Mali.” (IRIN, 21 January 2013)
“Suspected Islamists have been blamed for the deaths of at least 23 people in separate attacks in north-eastern Nigeria. Witnesses say gunmen apparently targeted hunters selling bush meat in Damboa on Monday, killing 18 people. Another five people died on Tuesday when a group of men playing draughts was attacked in Kano. The militant group Boko Haram, which is fighting to create an Islamic state, has staged many attacks in Nigeria.” (BBC, 22 January 2013)
“Gunmen believed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have opened fire at a market in volatile northeastern Nigeria, killing 18 people, a local official said Tuesday. […] There were conflicting reasons given for the attack. According to Ahmed, there were claims that the Islamists were angry over the hunters selling meat such as pork forbidden in Islam. Other residents however spoke of hunters in the area recently banding together to form a local vigilante group in response to robberies by Boko Haram members, sparking a revenge attack from the Islamists. Hunters typically sell their game at the market in Damboa where the attack occurred.” (AFP, 22 January 2013)
“Attackers beheaded five people after storming into their homes on Wednesday in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the base of an insurgency by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, residents said.” (AFP, 23 January 2013)
“Suspected militant Islamists have beheaded five people in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, a resident has told the BBC. […] At least 23 others have been killed in separate attacks in the north this week blamed on militants wanting to impose Islamic law on Nigeria. The insurgency was launched by Boko Haram in Maiduguri in 2009, but a second militant group, Ansaru, emerged last year. Last month, suspected militants slit the throats of at least 15 Christians near Maiduguri.” (BBC, 23 January 2013)
“Attackers killed eight people in a village in northern Nigeria's embattled Borno state, with at least some of the victims' throats slit, officials and residents said Monday. […] Gajiganna is roughly 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the state capital of Maiduguri, the base of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, but it was not clear who was responsible for the latest violence.” (AFP, 28 January 2013)
FEBRUARY 2013
“Nigeria's military said it has killed 17 insurgents in an attack on two training camps belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist group.” (BBC, 1 February 2013)
“Three North Korean doctors have been killed in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe, officials say. Residents said they were killed during the night in the town of Potiskum. Two of them had their throats slit while the third was beheaded, they added. […] No-one has said they were behind the attack, but it happened in an area where the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has been active in recent years.” (BBC, 10 February 2013)
“Two Nigerian journalists have been charged in court over the killing of nine female polio vaccinators in northern Kano state on Friday. They were charged with conspiracy and inciting a disturbance. […] No group has said it carried out Friday's two separate attacks on the polio vaccinators. Some have accused Islamist militant group Boko Haram of the killings but it has not commented on the allegations.” (BBC, 12 February 2013)
“Nigerian militant group Ansaru says it kidnapped seven foreign workers in a raid that saw a security guard killed. […] Ansaru, which announced its existence in a video released in June 2012, is suspected of being an off-shoot of Boko Haram. The new movement has been listed by the UK government as a ‘terrorist organisation’ aligned with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.” (BBC, 18 February 2013)
“A blast targeting a military patrol vehicle in the Nigerian city where a radical Islamist group is based killed two civilians on Wednesday, the military said. […] Separately, the military said that hundreds of leaflets were distributed around the northeastern city overnight on Tuesday, warning that Boko Haram had not declared a ceasefire, as reported by some media.” (AFP, 20 February 2013)
“Gunmen on motorcycles have shot dead five people and injured several others in northeast Nigeria, the latest attack in the restive region, police said Saturday. [..] Gombe has seen a series of targeted shootings in recent months, with some blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, an extremist group based in the neighbouring state of Borno.” (AFP, 23 February 2013)
“Six people died and many others were injured when unknown gunmen attacked Aduwan Gida Village in the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) of Southern Kaduna during the evening of 23 February. […] The Reverend Yunusa Nmadu, CEO of Christian Solidarity Worldwide-Nigeria (CSW-N), said, ‘It is unfortunate that after the announcement of a ceasefire by elements of Boko Haram, we are still experiencing attacks resembling their style of operations. We ask for continuing prayers for Nigeria, and urge churches to be vigilant with regard to security, particularly as the Easter period approaches.’” (CSW, 25 February 2013)
MARCH 2013
“Nigeria's military says it has killed 20 fighters from Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-eastern Borno state. An army spokesman said the militants were killed as they tried to seize military barracks in the village of Monguno. The attack was repelled.” (BBC, 3 March 2013)
“The leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram rejected peace talks with the government in a video on Sunday, distancing himself from a purported commander who declared a ceasefire on behalf of the sect in January.” (Reuters - AlertNet, 4 March 2013)
“A Nigerian Islamist militant group's claims to have killed seven foreign hostages it seized last month are credible, Western governments say. […] In an online statement posted on Saturday, the militant group Ansaru said it had killed the captives. Ansaru is suspected of being an offshoot of the Boko Haram network.” (BBC, 10 March 2013; Guardian, 10 March 2013)
“Ansaru, a splinter group independent from Boko Haram, the main terrorist group in northern Nigeria, claimed responsibility and announced on Saturday they had killed ‘all the seven Christian foreigners’. Experts on Islamist terrorism in the west African country said the killings were further evidence that Ansaru is focused on attacking foreign nationals in an attempt to internationalise a bloody internal conflict that has seen Boko Haram claim the lives of more than 1,500 Nigerians since 2009.” (Guardian, 10 March 2013)
“A series of blasts targeting three buses full of passengers in Nigeria's second city of Kano killed at least 20 people on Monday, a rescue official told AFP. […] While the official confirmed at least two explosions, residents have given figures of up to three, in what may have been a coordinated attack in a city repeatedly targeted by Islamist group Boko Haram.” (AFP, 18 March 2013)
“The number of people killed in a suicide car bomb attack at a bus stop in the Nigerian city of Kano on Monday has risen to at least 22, police say.” (BBC, 19 March 2013)
“At least 25 people died when gunmen attacked a prison, a police station, a bank and a bar in an eastern Nigerian town, police said. […] No group has said it carried out the attack but police said they suspected Islamist militants Boko Haram.” (BBC, 23 March 2013)
“Twenty-five people were killed in eastern Nigeria when attackers blasted a jail, a police station and a bank with bombs, machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades, police said Saturday. […] Although he [Adamawa state police chief Mohammed Ibrahim] declined to say if the attackers were members of the Islamist Boko Harm sect, the raids resembled previous ones claimed by the sect in parts of the north.” (AFP, 24 March 2013)
“Three people, including a soldier, were injured Thursday in multiple blasts in three areas of Nigeria's restive city of Maiduguri, with one targeting a military patrol vehicle, the army said. […] JTF [Joint Task Force] said troops killed four suspected militants on Monday in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and the main base of the Boko Harm Islamist sect whose insurgency is believed to have killed at least 3,000 people since 2009. The Nigerian forces had been combing the city for Boko Haram fighters suspected of involvement in attacks that the army said killed three civilians and left six soldiers wounded last week.” (AFP, 28 March 2013)
“Nigerian troops say they have killed 14 suspected members of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano. A soldier was killed in the raid, and a potential suicide bomber was arrested in a car laden with explosives, a military spokesman said.” (BBC, 31 March 2013)
APRIL 2013
“Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a panel to look into the possibility of granting an amnesty to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The move came after religious and political leaders said the military approach did not solve the violence.” (BBC, 5 April 2013)
“Eleven people have been killed in an attack in north-eastern Nigeria targeting the deputy governor of Adamawa state, police say. […] It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. […] Islamist group Boko Haram is active in the region, though the state of Adamawa is also the scene of a political feud between members of the ruling PDP party.” (BBC, 6 April 2013)
“Suspected Islamist militants shot or hacked to death 11 people on Saturday in a northeast Nigerian village, including at a deputy governor's house, police said.” (Reuters - AlertNet, 7 April 2013)
“The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the idea of an amnesty. Last week President Goodluck Jonathan asked a high level team to look into the possibility of granting the militants a pardon.” (BBC, 11 April 2013)
“Nigerian Islamists stormed a police station in the restive northeast on Thursday, sparking a shootout that left four officers and five insurgents dead, police said. […] ‘We killed five of them but they fled with the corpses. Unfortunately, we also lost four of our policemen,’ he added, labelling Boko Haram gunmen as the suspected culprits.” (AFP, 11 April 2013)
“Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed 187 people, including scores of civilians, while massive blazes left nearly half the town destroyed, the Red Cross said Monday. The bloodshed that began Friday in the remote northeastern town of Baga also left 77 people injured and likely marks the single deadliest event in the insurgency of Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group blamed for scores of attacks in northern and central Nigeria since 2009.” (AFP, 22 April 2013)
“An attack Thursday in restive northern Nigeria where suspected Islamists stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. ‘Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been confirmed dead when some Boko Haram Terrorist attacked police formations in Gashua town,’ the Yobe state police commissioner, Sanusi Rufai, told journalists Friday.” (AFP, 26 April 2013)
MAY 2013
“Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in the northern Nigerian town of Baga last month, a rights group has said.“ (BBC, 1 May 2013)
“Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state.” (BBC, 7 May 2013)
“Around 15,000 children in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, have stopped attending classes since February 2013, according to a Borno State Ministry of Education official who preferred anonymity, as Boko Haram extremists continue a wave of attacks on state schools. Most of the children are primary school students, according to the official. Thus far Boko Haram (BH) has burned or destroyed 50 of the state's 175 schools, he said. Teachers in the state confirmed the estimate.” (IRIN, 14 May 2013)
“Nigeria's military on Wednesday announced the ‘massive’ deployment of troops to its restive northeast, after the president declared a state of emergency in areas where Islamist insurgents have seized territory.” (AFP, 15 May 2013)
“Nigeria's military said Thursday that it was ready to launch air strikes against Boko Haram Islamists as several thousand troops moved to the remote northeast to retake territory seized by the insurgents.” (AFP, 16 May 2013)
“Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as soldiers pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent people fleeing from their homes.” (AFP, 18 May 2013)
“The Nigerian military say Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country are ‘in disarray’ and leaving the country in large numbers as a result of its offensive against them. In a statement, it said 14 enemy fighters had been killed and 20 apprehended since Saturday.” (BBC, 19 May 2013)
“About 120 militant Islamists have been arrested in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, as they were organising the burial of a commander, an army spokesman has said.” (BBC, 20 May 2013)
“Soldiers have sealed roads heading out of Maiduguri, blocking supply routes to remote towns where Boko Haram Islamists have seized power, residents said.” (AFP, 20 May 2013)
“Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the release of all women held in connection with ‘terrorist activity’, the defence ministry says. The decision was aimed at enhancing peace efforts in Nigeria, it added. The army is conducting an offensive in three states, where an emergency was declared last week to fight the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The group had set the release of women and children as a condition for talks with the government.” (BBC, 21 May 2013)
“Nigeria on Tuesday relaxed the curfew in Maiduguri, stronghold of the Boko Haram Islamist militant sect, three days after it was imposed, an AFP journalist in the city said.” (IRIN, 21 May 2013)
“Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May. The attacks on BH camps in northern parts of Borno close to the borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon followed the 14 May declaration of a state of emergency by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.” (IRIN, 22 May 2013)
“The UN refugee agency on Wednesday voiced concern about the safety and welfare of people displaced in northern Nigeria by the activities of the militant Boko Haram group and the government's response.” (UNHCR, 29 May 2013)
JUNE 2013
“Nigeria has formally declared the Boko Haram Islamist sect and Ansaru, its suspected offshot, ‘terrorist’ groups and issued a law to ban them, a presidential statement said on Tuesday. […] The law prescribes a prison term of ‘not less than 20 years’ for anybody who solicits or gives any form of support, including financial and logistics, to the groups.” (AFP, 4 June 2013)
“Residents in the three Nigerian states where a state of emergency has been declared are living in fear as food prices soar and government soldiers conduct door to door campaigns to root out terrorists. The Joint Military Task Force has been deployed to the three northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where on May 14 President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency.” (IPS, 7 June 2013)
“Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists have stormed a neighbourhood in the restive city of Maiduguri, killing at least 11 people with weapons hidden in a coffin, local residents said Monday.“ (AFP, 10 June 2013)
“The crisis in northeastern Nigeria has forced more than 6,000 mainly women, children and elderly people to seek safety in neighbouring Niger. Those UNCHR has spoken to say they escaped for fear of being caught in the government-led crackdown on insurgents linked to the Boko Haram sect, particularly in the Baga area of northern Nigeria, close to the Niger border.“ (UNHCR, 11 June 2013)
“With mobile phone signals shut down since 15 May in large parts of three northeastern states following a military offensive against Boko Haram (BH) Islamists, anxious residents say the sick are cut off from medical help, commercial supplies are dwindling and food prices rising.“ (IRIN, 11 June 2013)
“Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeast, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said Monday. Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist extremist group Boko Haram on May 15 and access to the area is limited.“ (AFP, 17 June 2013)
“The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday the on-going crisis in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States is causing new arrivals of refugees in Niger, and now in Cameroon.“ (UNHCR, 18 June 2013)
“Suspected Islamists shot dead nine students as they sat an exam in an attack on a private school in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, local people said Tuesday.“ (AFP, 19 June 2013)
“Nigeria's military has banned satellite phones in a northern state to hinder communication by Islamist militants following recent attacks. Mobile phone signals have already been blocked in Borno state, after a state of emergency was declared last month. An army spokesman said anyone found with a satellite phone or accessories would be arrested.“ (BBC, 20 June 2013)
“Youths in northern Nigeria’s Borno State, where many members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram (BH) have been arrested in recent weeks, are increasingly joining vigilante gangs to pass on the identity of BH members to the military-police Joint Task Force (JTF) following a string of deadly attacks on schools, according to vigilante groups and residents of Borno State capital, Maiduguri.“ (IRIN, 27 June 2013)
JULY 2013
“Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's restive northeast on Saturday, killing 42 people, many of whom were students, a medical worker and residents said Saturday. But a military spokesman said 20 students and one teacher were killed in the dawn attack at Yobe state.” (AFP, 6 July 2013)
“Secondary schools have been ordered to close across Nigeria's north-eastern state of Yobe after a massacre in which suspected Islamist extremists killed 22 students and torched their school. Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam condemned as ‘cold-blooded murder’ Saturday's attack on the Mamudo boarding school. Nigeria blamed Islamist militant group Boko Haram - which targeted two schools in the region in June - for the attack.” (BBC, 7 July 2013)
“The Yobe State authorities in northeastern Nigeria have closed all schools following the 6 July Boko Haram (BH) attack on a secondary school in Mamudo which killed 41 students and a teacher. […] The 6 July raid was thought to be a reprisal attack following a 4 July military raid on a BH camp, according to security sources, medics and local residents. “ (IRIN, 8 July 2013)
“But while military officials say Yobe state is stable, schools remain closed after gunmen slaughtered nearly 30 children at a secondary school.“ (VOA, 22 July 2013)
“Four alleged members of the Islamist Boko Haram group have been sentenced to life for their role in bomb attacks that killed 19 people. They were found guilty of masterminding and carrying out attacks on an electoral commission office and a church last year. These are the heaviest sentences given to any Boko Haram suspects.“ (BBC, 9 July 2013)
“A Nigerian minister tasked with talking to Boko Haram claimed Wednesday that he was in ceasefire negotiations with the Islamist insurgents, but doubts persisted that a peace pact could be secured. There have been previous claims of peace talks between the government and the militants, but the negotiations, if they did indeed occur, failed to quell the violence. Nigeria's government and military have regularly been accused of spreading false information regarding the insurgency.“ (AFP, 10 July 2013)
“Nigeria's military on Sunday claimed the rescue of women and children hostages from a Boko Haram Islamist stronghold, saying troops killed several insurgents during recent gun battles in the area. The Bulabulin Nganaram area of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where the fighting occurred, is considered an enclave of the radical Islamist group.“ (AFP, 15 July 2013)
“Vigilante groups have formed in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri to fight the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, a move welcomed by the military as it battles to quell the insurgency, as the BBC's Will Ross reports.“ (BBC, 24 July 2013)
“At least 20 villagers in Nigeria have been killed after clashes between a vigilante force and militant Islamists, the army and vigilantes have said. According to the pro-government vigilantes, they stormed the northern village of Dawashe on Saturday to track down militants who retaliated with heavy firepower, killing civilians.“ (BBC, 29 July 2013)
“Bomb blasts that ripped through a mainly Christian area of the largest city in northern Nigeria have killed 24 people, an official said Tuesday, shattering a recent lull in insurgent attacks there. At least four explosions were heard Monday night around outdoor bars in the Sabon Gari area of Kano, causing panic and sending clouds of smoke and dust into the air, residents said.“ (AFP, 30 July 2013)
“At least 28 are people have been killed in a series of explosions that targeted bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a hospital source tells the BBC. Witnesses said the blasts shook a Christian neighbourhood that has previously been attacked by militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram.“ (BBC, 30 July 2013)
AUGUST 2013
“Clashes between Nigeria's military and Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in two northeastern towns have left at least 35 people dead, most of them insurgents, the army said on Monday. A clash in the town of Bama sparked by an attack on a police base ‘led to the death of one policeman and 17 Boko Haram terrorists,’ a military statement said.“ (AFP, 5 August 2013)
“Gunfire and explosions shook one northeastern Nigerian town Tuesday while soldiers slapped a round-the-clock curfew on another in the region hit by waves of insurgent attacks, the military and residents said. […] In Potiskum, residents said soldiers were conducting house-to-house searches in two neighbourhoods and word had spread in the town that troops were looking for high-profile members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.“ (AFP, 6 August 2013)
“At least 44 worshippers have been shot dead at a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, officials in Borno state say. […] The attack occurred in the town of Konduga, 35km (22 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri. The gunmen are suspected of being from the Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands since 2009. Twelve further civilians were killed at Ngom village, closer to Maiduguri, reports say.“ (BBC, 13 August 2013)
“At least 50 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in a series of weekend attacks in north-eastern Nigeria by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.” (CSW, 14 August 2013)
“Nigeria's military has said it has killed the second-in-command of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. His death earlier in the month had been ‘confirmed by other arrested terrorists’, a military spokesman, Brig Gen Chris Olukolade said. Momodu Bama, also known by his alias ‘Abu Saad’, was a specialist in manning anti-aircraft guns, he said.“ (BBC, 14 August 2013)
“Suspected Islamic militants have attacked a town in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 11 people, reports say. […] The area is a stronghold of the Boko Haram militant group.” (BBC, 16 August 2013)
“Nigeria's military says Abubakar Shekau, the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, may have died of a gun-shot wound sustained during an assault by government forces on his forest hide-out in north-eastern Nigeria last month.” (BBC, 20 August 2013)
“Suspected Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group have killed at least 35 people in north-eastern Nigeria, local officials have said. They say the gunmen raided the village of Demba in Borno state after locals refused to co-operate with them.” (BBC, 23 August 2013)
“Two attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed 24 people in Nigeria's northeast in the latest violence believed to be in revenge against vigilantes, residents and officials said Tuesday. A survivor and a hospital source spoke of 18 people killed in the town of Bama on Sunday. A resident and a military source said six people were killed in Damasak on Monday.” (AFP, 27 August 2013)
“Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 20 members of vigilante groups trying to fight back against the group in north-east Borno state. […] But now it appears Boko Haram is taking revenge against such groups, say observers - adding weight to fears that the vigilante groups may trigger an escalation of the violence.” (BBC, 27 August 2013)
SEPTEMBER 2013
„At least 38 people have been killed in weekend attacks in Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, and another 34 are missing, local officials said Saturday.“ (AFP, 1 September 2013)
„Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed the northeast Nigerian town of Gajiran on Thursday, opening fire in a market and killing 15 people, residents said.“ (AFP, 5 September 2013)
„Nigeria's military on Friday said it had killed 50 Boko Haram Islamists in an operation launched in response to an insurgent attack on civilians in the northeast. Gunmen suspected to be from the violent Islamist sect opened fire in a market on Thursday in the town of Gajiran, killing 15 people, residents said. “ (AFP, 6 September 2013)
“At least 18 people have died in clashes between suspected Boko Haram fighters and a vigilante group in Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria, reports say. A majority of those killed were thought to have been vigilante members who had tried to defend the town of Benisheik against the Islamist militants.” (AFP, 9 September 2013)
“Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in a clash in the country's restive northeast, the military said Wednesday. The military said troops clashed with ‘fleeing Boko Haram terrorists’ late Tuesday following the destruction of two alleged Boko Haram camps in the Konduga area of Borno state.” (AFP, 11 September 2013)
“A military strike on a Boko Haram camp in Nigeria's restive northeast last week left about 150 Islamists and 16 soldiers dead, the army said Wednesday, amid reports of dozens of troops killed.” (AFP, 18 September 2013)
“At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee, witnesses said.” (BBC, 19 September 2013)
“A cell of suspected Islamist militants has opened fire on security forces in Nigeria's capital Abuja, say officials. The clash occurred at about 03:00 local time after a tip-off about the location of a suspected Boko Haram weapons cache, Nigeria's spy agency said.” (BBC, 20 September 2013)
“Islamist Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria this week, officials said, far more than was originally reported and a sign that a four-month-old army offensive has yet to stabilise the region.” (AlertNet, 21 September 2013)
“Six people were killed in an attack on Wednesday night in Gamboru, a remote town close to the Cameroon border in Borno state, local government chairman Alhaji Modu Gana Sheriff told reporters. Sheriff said gunmen returned on Thursday night and killed 21 more civilians. A Borno military source said he thought the attacks were coordinated and confirmed the death toll.” (AlertNet, 29 September 2013)
“Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students. The students were shot dead as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state.“ (BBC, 29 September 2013)
OCTOBER 2013
“Nigeria's military has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college campus where insurgents massacred 40 students at the weekend, a spokesman said Thursday.“ (AFP, 3 October 2013)
“Boko Haram Islamists claimed five lives in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, before being repulsed by soldiers who killed 15 of the insurgents, the military said in a statement Sunday. The latest attack by the extremist group, which has been waging an insurgency since 2009, struck on Saturday morning at Damboa town in Borno state, the group's stronghold. “ (AFP, 7 October 2013)
“Militants wearing army uniforms have killed 19 people at checkpoints on a road in Nigeria's Borno state. The armed men reportedly stopped motorists on the road and ordered them out of their cars before shooting them or hacking them to death. Witnesses told the BBC the men were from Boko Haram, though the Islamist militant group has not yet commented.“ (BBC, 20 October 2013)
“Fear and secrecy have cloaked the roll-out of a polio campaign currently underway in northern Nigeria. Vaccinators are concealing their identities, hiding vaccinations under their veils and visiting some areas only with undercover armed guards, following the February murder by Boko Haram of nine polio workers in the northern city of Kano.“ (IRIN, 22 October 2013)
“Nigeria's military said Tuesday it killed 37 suspected Boko Haram fighters in a ground and air assault on an insurgent camp in the northeast, the epicentre of the Islamist group's four-year uprising.“ (AFP, 22 October 2013)
“Nigeria's army said Friday it had killed 95 suspected Boko Haram fighters in raids in the country's northeast, as gunmen from the Islamist group battled security forces in a neighbouring area.“ (AFP, 25 October 2013)
NOVEMBER 2013
“Gunmen in north-eastern Nigeria have killed more than 30 people in a attack on a wedding convoy. It happened on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road between Bama and Banki in Borno State, east of the regional capital Maiduguri. The groom was reportedly amongst the victims. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out frequent attacks in the area despite a state of emergency declared in north-east Nigeria in May.“ (BBC, 3 November 2013)
“Islamist insurgents last week killed a total of 40 people and wounded a dozen others in two separate incidents in restive northeast Nigeria, a local official [Baba Shehu] said Monday. Some 70 gunmen stormed the town of Bama in Borno state on a convoy of motorcycles and pick-up trucks late Thursday, said Baba Shehu from the area's local government. […] In a separate incident on Saturday, Shehu said 13 people travelling on a bus in the same area were ‘ambushed by the (Islamist) militants and murdered in cold blood.’” (AFP, 4 November 2013)
“Amnesty International strongly condemns the unlawful killings of members of the public in northern Nigeria. The killing of at least 115 people in the last two weeks by unknown gunmen and other suspected members of Boko Haram may constitute crimes against humanity as defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to which Nigeria is a state party.” (AI, 6 November 2013)
“Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan asked lawmakers on Wednesday to extend a state of emergency declared in the northeast in May for an additional six months, saying the Islamist insurgency had not yet been contained. Jonathan imposed the emergency measures in the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, areas where he said Boko Haram insurgents had seized territory and chased out local officials, threatening Nigeria's sovereignty.“ (AFP, 6 November 2013)
“Nigerian security forces staged lethal raids Saturday on suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the northern city of Kano allegedly plotting ‘suicide attacks’ there and in the capital Abuja, the military said. Five suspected ‘terrorists’ and two soldiers died in gunbattles during the swoop on two addresses in Kano conducted by elite troops and domestic intelligence officers, military spokesman Captain Iweha Ikedichi said in a statement.“ (AFP, 9 November 2013)
“As attacks by militant group Boko Haram (BH) continue to spread terror across northeastern Nigeria, the government's response is also causing widespread fear among civilians. Mass sweep-ups of BH suspects, led by the military's Joint Task Force (JTF), have led to mounting reports of detainees dying or disappearing in custody.“ (IRIN, 15 November 2013)
“Nigeria's army has killed 20 suspected members of Boko Haram in a renewed offensive against the Islamist insurgency, a military spokesman said Saturday. ‘In the late hours of Friday November 15, 2013, troops [...] launched an offensive operation along Gwoza - Bita Damboa Road, where Boko Haram insurgents were flushed out,’ said Mohammad Dole, an army regional spokesman.“ (AFP, 16 November 2013)
“In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into ‘marriage’ with fighters - a tactic that recalls Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of Uganda.“ (Reuters - Alert Net, 18 November 2013)
“Violence has not abated in northeastern Nigeria despite the military's efforts to quash the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram. Officials say militants have been pushed out of urban areas, but attacks continue in the countryside. Some Nigerians also fear the militants are moving to areas outside the government's emergency-rule zone.” (VOA, 22 November 2013)
“The family of a Nigerian Islamic studies lecturer accused of being a Boko Haram leader has told the BBC that his arrest was a ‘set up’.“ (BBC, 22 November 2013)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 12 people in a raid on a village in north-east Nigeria, police say. Police said about 30 gunmen also burnt houses and stole cars in the village of Sandiya, in Borno state. One resident, quoted by the AFP news agency, said Boko Haram accused villagers of collaborating with the security forces to track them down.“ (BBC, 23 November 2013)
“Air strikes on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria have killed ‘many’ insurgents, the military said Thursday of latest operation aimed at crushing the four-year Islamist uprising. The bombardment last Sunday targeted the notorious Sambisa Forest area of Borno state, which is considered an extremist fiefdom and has become a key focus of the military's ongoing offensive.” (AFP, 28 November 2013)
“Boko Haram has abducted scores of women and girls, used children as young as 12 in hostilities, and killed hundreds of people in recent attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. The Nigerian government, meanwhile, has failed to account for hundreds of men and boys whom security forces have rounded up and forcibly disappeared during Boko Haram’s four-year insurgency.” (HRW, 29 November 2013)
“Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 24 people in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, just as the military vowed to ramp up security over Christmas. Seven fishermen were ambushed and killed in the first attack in Baga, a fishing community on Lake Chad in Borno state, one of three in the northeast of the country under emergency rule since May this year. Seventeen people died in a separate attack on Thursday, other eyewitnesses said, when gunmen in pick-up trucks torched more than 100 shops and vehicles in the Sabon Gari area of the Damboa district, 90 kilometres (56 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri.“ (AFP, 30 November 2013)
DECEMBER 2013
“Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a military airbase in north-eastern Nigeria, destroying two helicopters, the authorities say. Eyewitnesses say hundreds of militants attacked several areas of the city of Maiduguri, starting early on Monday. A 24-hour curfew has been imposed in Maiduguri. Its civilian airport was also briefly closed.” (BBC, 2 December 2013)
“BH [Boko Haram] continues to incite terror in the northeast. In its latest attack, on 8 December, BH allegedly killed seven traders travelling in a motor boat on Lake Chad.” (IRIN, 12 December 2013)
“Suspected Islamist militants have attacked a military barracks in north-eastern Nigeria in a fierce battle that lasted for several hours. […] For several years, militants from the Boko Haram group have been fighting an insurgency in the mainly Muslim area to impose strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria.” (BBC, 20 December 2013)
“Fighters from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist sect armed with anti-aircraft guns and grenade launchers attacked a barracks in the volatile northeast and battled soldiers for several hours, the military said. The army said it used troops and planes to repel Friday's assault in the town of Bama, the second Islamist attack on a military base this month.“ (AlertNet, 21 December 2013)
“Nigeria's troops have killed over 50 Islamists and destroyed more than 20 vehicles during a massive hunt for fleeing Boko Haram insurgents who attacked an army barracks in a restive northeastern town, a spokesman said Monday.“ (AFP, 23 December 2013)
“Only around 1,800 of the thousands of Nigerians forced to find refuge from the fighting in the northeast between the jihadist Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have settled in a camp in neighbouring Cameroon.” (IRIN, 24 December 2013)
“At least 70 people are said to have died when Nigerian forces attacked those behind a raid on a barracks. Fifty insurgents, 15 soldiers and five civilians died in the clashes as those who raided the barracks in Bama sought to flee to Cameroon, officials said.” (BBC, 24 December 2013)
“Twelve people died in a suspected Boko Haram attack on a wedding party at the weekend, police and health officials in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno said on Monday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire in the mainly Christian village of Tashan Alade, 230 kilometres (over 140 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, on Saturday, said police commissioner Lawan Tanko.“ (AFP, 30 December 2013)
JANUARY 2014
“Gunmen have attacked a mosque in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, killing three worshippers and wounding 12 others, police say. […] No group has said it carried out the raid. Islamist group Boko Haram has also staged several attacks in Kano, and elsewhere in northern Nigeria.” (BBC, 8 January 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a market in restive northeastern Nigeria, killing five and injuring many more, witnesses said on Monday. More than 30 attackers armed with guns, explosives and knives stormed the market in Borno State, where a state of emergency is in place, they said.” (AFP, 13 January 2014)
„A car bomb has exploded in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 17 people. The Islamist group Boko Haram said it carried out the attack. A suspect has been arrested, the military says.“ (BBC, 14 January 2014)
„A total of 19 people were killed in a car bomb attack on a busy market blamed on Boko Haram militants, police in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, witnesses reported that another five people were killed in a separate attack also allegedly carried out by Boko Haram gunmen, just hours after the market explosion.“ (AFP, 15 January 2014)
„The bomb blast in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, on January 14, 2014, illuminates the price citizens are paying in the intensifying unrest in northern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today. The bombing, which appears to have been directed at local residents by the Islamist insurgent movement, Boko Haram, is an assault on the basic tenet of the right to life. It killed about 40 people and wounded 50.“ (HRW, 16 January 2014)
„Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his military high command, his spokesman Reuben Abati has said. No reason was given but the dismissals come amid growing concern about the military's failure to end the Islamist-led insurgency in northern Nigeria.“ (BBC, 16 January 2014)
„Border villages in Cameroon's north have been deserted following heavy fighting between the Nigerian army and the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Banki, Borno state. About 30 Cameroonians and Nigerians are said to have been wounded in the attacks, and five are feared dead.“ (VOA, 17 January 2014)
„Suspected Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people in two separate attacks on villages near Nigeria's border with Niger while three others drowned in a river while fleeing, locals said Sunday. The attackers, thought to be from the Boko Haram militant group, on Thursday shot dead seven people in Gashigar village, a fishing community in Borno state, close to the Nigerian border with neighbouring Niger, the locals said. Three others drowned in the river while fleeing from the night raid, they added. The attack came four days after a similar one on two other neighbouring villages - Yawuma-ango and Jabulam - in which gunmen shot dead five people, a former deputy local government council chairman in the district, Talba Gashigar, said.“ (AFP, 19 January 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead a teacher in a northeast Nigerian village on the border with Chad, police and residents said on Tuesday. The attackers stormed a house late on Monday, where the head of a primary school lived, killing him and wounding another man, his housemate who was a cook in another school, locals said.” (AFP, 21 January 2014)
„Recent clashes between the Nigerian Army and insurgent groups in the north-east of the country have led over 4,000 people to seek refuge in Cameroon since mid-January, while an estimated 1,500 people have fled to Niger.“ (UNHCR, 24 January 2014)
„Suspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in north-eastern Nigeria, leaving 74 people dead, say police and witnesses. Militants attacked Kawuri village in Borno state as a busy market was packing up on Sunday, setting off explosives and setting houses ablaze. Witnesses said 52 people were killed in that attack, while 22 died in an attack on a church service in Waga Chakawa village, Adamawa state, on Sunday. The attacks were blamed on Boko Haram.“ (BBC, 27 January 2014)
„More than 70 people were killed in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, police and state authorities said on Monday, with suspicions falling on the banned Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The attacks on Sunday - one on a busy market in Borno state, killing 45, and the other in neighbouring Adamawa, which left at least 26 dead - came just a week after a change of the guard at the top of Nigeria's military.“ (AFP, 27 January 2014)
„A senior cleric has spoken of how suspected Islamist militants ‘slaughtered’ some 30 churchgoers in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday. The Bishop of Yola told the BBC the insurgents had locked the church and ‘cut people's throats’ in Waga Chakawa village, Adamawa state. On the same day, militants also attacked Kawuri village in neighbouring Borno state, killing 52 people. Both assaults were blamed on the Islamist Boko Haram group.“ (BBC, 28 January 2014)
„The number of people killed in a deadly market attack blamed on Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria has risen to 52, police told AFP on Tuesday. ‘From the verified figures I have in my records, 52 people have been confirmed killed in the attack,’ Borno state police commissioner Lawan Tanko told AFP.“ (AFP, 28 January 2014)
„On 18 January, over 500 people fled Ghashakar Village, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, crossing the Komadougou River to reach Gasseré in Niger, 2km away. IRIN spoke to the displaced in Gasseré. […] Men from Ghashakar told IRIN their village was targeted because youths had set up a self-defence militia to try to defend themselves from the violence. Militia members have fled to elsewhere in Nigeria and Niger, said Oumar Moustapha, a bush taxi driver whose vehicle was burned in the attack.“ (IRIN, 30 January 2014)
„Last month some 300 traders from the Muslim majority north of the country were detained in southern Rivers State for allegedly belonging to the banned Islamist group Boko Haram. Most were later released. Elsewhere, 84 apprentices were sent back to Katsina State, also in the north, after being held on suspicion of militant links as they undertook a training course in Imo, southeastern Nigeria.“ (AFP, 3 February 2014)
FEBRUARY 2014
„A Muslim cleric from Kaduna State, his wife and child, and 11 Christians in Adamawa State, were murdered in separate attacks last weekend by members of the Islamist terror group Boko Haram.“ (CSW, 3 February 2014)
„Persistent attacks by Boko Haram (BH) militants in Nigeria's Borno State have forced dozens of clinics to shut down and hundreds of doctors to flee, leaving many residents to seek medical attention across the border in Cameroon, health professionals and residents told IRIN.“ (IRIN, 5 February 2014)
“Boko Haram gunmen killed 43 people and razed scores of homes when they stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, firing indiscriminately on fleeing civilians, a state governor and witnesses said Wednesday. Heavily armed Islamist extremists in 4X4 trucks attacked a mosque, markets and government buildings in a massive assault on Konduga village in the troubled state of Borno on Tuesday. State governor Kashim Shettima said 39 people were killed in the raid, the latest in a series of attacks in Borno. Another four people were killed Tuesday when gunmen opened fire in the village of Wajirko in Borno, the epicentre of a gruesome Islamist rebellion that has killed thousands of people across northern and central Nigeria since 2009.” (AFP, 12 February 2014)
“Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told AFP Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali area of Adamawa state when they were bombarded by Islamist rebels armed with anti-aircraft weapons mounted on the backs of 4X4 trucks, said Maina Ularamu, a local government official in the area.” (AFP, 13 February 2014)
“Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village. About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, 35 kilometres (22 miles) away following warnings from residents of Gombale village, where Boko Haram Islamists gathered for a planned attack on Bama, Usman Adam, one of the fleeing residents said.” (AFP, 15 February 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants have raided a Nigerian village and murdered dozens, according to witnesses. The gunmen reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izghe village and shot them, before going door-to-door and killing anyone they found. Officials said they suspected the Boko Haram group was behind the attack.” (BBC, 16 February 2014)
“Attacks by Islamist armed groups that have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks in northern Nigeria have been increasingly deadly and sophisticated, and amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said. On 15 February, more than 100 people were reportedly killed and hundreds of houses burnt as gunmen attacked Baga and Izge villages in Borno state. It is just the latest in a series of attacks the organization has documented there and in neighbouring Adamawa state over the past three weeks.” (AI, 17 February 2014)
“At least 121 people are now known to have died and several others were injured when Boko Haram gunmen attacked Izghe Village in the Gwoza Local government Area (LGA) of Borno State on 15 February. […] According to local reports, Boko Haram gunmen carried out attacks on other villages in both Borno and Adamawa States on the same day, including Kirchang, Kwambula, Shuwa, Dagu, Yinagu, Bitiku, and Yazza. While casualty figures from other villages are unknown, a survivor from Yazza informed local media that he counted 25 corpses before he escaped.” (CSW, 18 February 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a town in Nigeria's troubled northeast on Wednesday, sparking a battle with soldiers that killed a large number of insurgents, the military said. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told AFP that the early morning attack in the town of Bama may have also included multiple suicide blasts.” (AFP, 19 February 2014)
“Suicide bombers are believed to have taken part in a major attack on the northern Nigerian border town of Bama, the army has said. The attack comes a day after a presidential spokesman said the army was ‘winning the war’ against Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group. Borno state senator Ahmed Zanna told the BBC the attack on Bama had lasted for five hours on Wednesday [19 February 2014] morning.” (BBC, 19 February 2014)
“The emir's palace was burnt during Wednesday's attack on Bama, northern Nigeria, in which at least 60 people were killed, police say. The extent of the damage is not clear. ‘They set the palace on fire. Many died,’ one resident said. The emir is one of northern Nigeria's most important traditional rulers, some of whom have already been targeted by Boko Haram Islamist militants.” (BBC, 20 February 2014)
“A Nigerian senator has expressed outrage over the security forces' failure to prevent a second attack on a town by suspected Islamist militants. Gunmen believed to be from the Boko Haram group killed several residents and burnt down Izghe over the weekend. A week earlier, 106 people were killed by gunmen in a raid on Izghe.”(BBC, 24 February 2014)
“At least 29 students have been killed after suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a boarding school in north-east Nigeria. The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says the remote school in Yobe state was attacked overnight when students were in their dormitories.” (BBC, 25 February 2014)
“At least 40 students were killed when suspected members of the Islamist terror group Boko Haram attacked the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi in Yobe State, north-east Nigeria, during the early hours of 25 February.” (CSW, 26 February 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast.” (AFP, 26 February 2014)
“Suspected militant Islamists have killed at least 37 people during an assault on a town and nearby villages in north-eastern Nigeria's Adamawa state, witnesses said. Banks, shops and houses were also looted and burnt during the six-hour raid by militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades, they added.” (AFP, 27 February 2014)
“’Since the beginning of this year the attacks have intensified. Over 600 people have been killed by gunmen, often suspected to be Boko Haram,’ said Makmid Kamara, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.” (AI, 28 February 2014)
MARCH 2014
“Two explosions targeting a busy market in the town of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria have left at least 50 people dead, the Red Cross says. Hospital sources say many of the victims were children. Maiduguri is the headquarters of a military force fighting against the Boko Haram Islamist group, which has stepped up its attacks in the area. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday night.” (BBC, 1 March 2014)
“Suspected militants have shot dead at least 39 people in an attack on a village in north-eastern Nigeria. The attackers - believed to be from the Boko Haram group - destroyed the entire village of Mainok, about 50km (30 miles) west of the city of Maiduguri. The incident took place late on Saturday, hours after two bomb blasts killed at least 50 people in Maiduguri.” (BBC, 2 March 2014)
“Suspected militant Islamists have killed at least 29 people in an attack on a town in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state, a lawmaker has said. Government troops fled when the militants raided Mafa town on Sunday night, Ahmad Zannah added.” (BBC, 3 March 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants have torched a village in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state, killing at least 11 people, a lawmaker told the BBC. They raided Jakana overnight, destroying about a third of homes, Senator Khalifa Zannah said.” (BBC, 4 March 2014)
“Nigeria's military said on Thursday that it had killed 20 Islamist insurgents in the restive northeast, as schools were shut in the region to prevent further attacks targeting students. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said troops repelled an ambush by Boko Haram militants on Wednesday in Mafa, Borno state, epicentre of the uprising which has killed 500 people this year alone.” (BBC, 6 March 2014)
“Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria's Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their lives from brutal violence unleashed by Islamist Boko Haram militants. […] ‘The whole healthcare system in northern Borno has collapsed and healthcare delivery is nil,’ said Musa Babakura, a surgeon at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).” (AFP, 9 March 2014)
“UNHCR is increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of the violence in north-eastern Nigeria. Newly-arriving refugees interviewed by our staff in Niger have spoken of atrocities on the islands and shores of Lake Chad in Nigeria's northeast Borno State.” (UNHCR, 11 March 2014)
“At least 69 people have been killed in several attacks on villages in Katsina state, north-western Nigeria. […] Police say the attack is not linked to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which is mainly active further east, particularly in Borno state.” (BBC, 13 March 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants from Boko Haram have attacked an army barracks in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The army said it had repelled the attack, inflicting heavy casualties. Eyewitnesses said there were deaths on both sides.” (BBC, 14 March 2014)
“Public secondary schools in Nigeria's northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, teachers and parents said Saturday. The closure reportedly affects 85 secondary schools, catering to some 120,000 students across the troubled state, a stronghold of the militant sect waging a five year insurgency in Nigeria.” (AFP, 22 March 2014)
“At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, Borno state, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko.” (AFP, 23 March 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram militants on Tuesday hurled explosives in Nigeria's troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five police officers, while a separate blast killed three.” (AFP, 25 March 2014)
“More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in northeastern Nigeria worst hit by Boko Haram violence, according to the country's main relief organisation. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) figures are the starkest indication yet of the increase in bloodshed in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe that have caused growing concern.” (AFP, 26 March 2014)
“Nigeria's army killed some 600 people after a recent attack by Boko Haram militants on a barracks, Amnesty International has said. Quoting eye-witnesses, it said that after the raid in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, detainees who had escaped were rounded up and killed.” (BBC, 31 March 2014)
“Twenty-one people have been killed in an attempt to escape from detention at the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in the capital, officials say. […] Local media say many of the police detainees are suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram.” (BBC, 31 March 2014)
APRIL 2014
“At least 15 civilians have been killed in a suicide bombing by suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria, officials say. Six of the attackers also died in the explosion, which took place on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri, a defence ministry spokesman said.” (BBC, 1 April 2014)
“Boko Haram militants attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said Sunday. Among the dead were Muslim worshippers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi Bego, spokesman for the governor of the troubled state of Yobe.” (AFP, 6 April 2014)
“Around 20 people may have died when gunmen attacked a mosque in Buni Gari village in Yobe State, north-eastern Nigeria, during the early hours of 5 April. The gunmen, believed to be members of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, are reported to have attacked Buni Gari just as villagers were gathering at the mosque for dawn prayers.” (CSW, 7 April 2014)
“Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing seven officers and a civilian, a police chief told AFP. The raid in the town of Gwaram in Jigawa state began at 1:00 am (0000 GMT) and sparked an hours-long shootout with the security forces, said Tamari Yabo, the assistant inspector-general of police in charge of the region. Boko Haram Islamists, waging a brutal insurgency which has killed thousands since 2009, have carried out dozens of attacks in surrounding areas, but Jigawa itself has been spared much of the violence.” (AFP, 9 April 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 19 people, including six college teachers, in three separate attacks in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state, residents and travellers said Friday. The killings took place on Thursday and Friday in Dikwa, Kala-Balge towns and near Dalwa village in the state, the bastion of the Islamist sect, they said.” (AFP, 11 April 2014)
“Gunmen have killed 135 civilians in north east Nigeria since Wednesday, a senior official from the region has told the BBC. Borno state senator Ahmed Zannah said the killings took place in at least three separate attacks in the state.” (BBC, 13 April 2014)
“Nigerian police boosted security across Abuja on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a packed bus station killing at least 75 people, the deadliest attack ever to hit the capital.” (AFP, 15 April 2014)
“Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said Tuesday. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno state came hours after a bomb blast ripped through a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Abuja, killing 75 people, the deadliest attack ever in Nigeria's capital.” (AFP, 16 April 2014)
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AFP - Agence France-Presse: Four dead in attack on police station in north Nigeria, 3 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/four-dead-attack-police-station-north-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen in Nigeria fire on Muslim worshippers, kill three, 7 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-nigeria-fire-muslim-worshippers-kill-three
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill 4 policemen in attacks in Nigeria's Kano, 15 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-4-policemen-attacks-nigerias-kano
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Four killed as Nigerian troops repel 'Islamist' attack, 17 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/four-killed-nigerian-troops-repel-islamist-attack
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Islamist gunmen kill 18 at Nigerian market, 22 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-islamist-gunmen-kill-18-nigerian-market
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Attackers behead five in northeast Nigeria, 23 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/attackers-behead-five-northeast-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Attackers kill eight in restive northeast Nigeria, 28 January 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/attackers-kill-eight-restive-northeast-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two dead after blast in restive northeast Nigeria, 20 February 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/two-dead-after-blast-restive-northeast-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill 5 in restive northeast Nigeria: police, 23 February 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-5-restive-northeast-nigeria-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 25 killed in series of attacks in east Nigeria: police, 24 March 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/25-killed-series-attacks-east-nigeria-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blasts injure three in Nigerian restive city: army, 28 March 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blasts-injure-three-nigerian-restive-city-army
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blasts at Nigeria bus park kill at least 20, 18 March 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blasts-nigeria-bus-park-kill-least-20
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nine killed in shootout at northern Nigeria police station, 11 April 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nine-killed-shootout-northern-nigeria-police-station
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 'Dozens' killed in Nigeria gun battles, 22 April 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/dozens-killed-nigeria-gun-battles
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 25 dead in fresh northern Nigeria violence, 26 April 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/25-dead-fresh-northern-nigeria-violence
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Survivors of Nigeria bloodbath still in hiding, 26 April 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/survivors-nigeria-bloodbath-still-hiding
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian Islamists attack town, kill 55, 7 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-islamists-attack-town-kill-55-army
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 'Massive' troop deployment in Nigeria's restive northeast, 15 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/massive-troop-deployment-nigerias-restive-northeast
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria set for air strikes against Islamists, 16 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-set-air-strikes-against-islamists
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria imposes curfew in campaign against Islamists, 18 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-imposes-curfew-campaign-against-islamists
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria offensive on Islamists escalates in key city, 20 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-offensive-islamists-escalates-key-city
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria relaxes curfew in Islamist stronghold of Maiduguri, 21 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-relaxes-curfew-islamist-stronghold-maiduguri
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria says it has retaken five Islamist strongholds, 20 May 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-says-it-has-retaken-five-islamist-strongholds
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram, Ansaru are 'terrorist' groups: Nigeria leader, 4 June 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-ansaru-are-terrorist-groups-nigeria-leader
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 11 killed in Nigeria Islamists' fake funeral attack, 10 June 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/11-killed-nigeria-islamists-fake-funeral-attack
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 11 dead in attack on school, soldiers, 17 June 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/11-dead-attack-school-soldiers-nigerian-military
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nine students killed in attack on Nigeria school: residents, 19 June 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nine-students-killed-attack-nigeria-school-residents
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill 42 in school attack in Nigeria, 6 July 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-42-school-attack-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria says in peace talks with Boko Haram Islamists amid doubts, 10 July 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-says-peace-talks-boko-haram-islamists-amid-doubts
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria claims rescue of women, children held by Boko Haram, 15 July 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-claims-rescue-women-children-held-boko-haram
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Bombs kill 24 in mainly Christian area of north Nigeria, 30 July 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/bombs-kill-24-mainly-christian-area-north-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Clashes between military, insurgents kill 35 in north Nigeria, 5 August 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/clashes-between-military-insurgents-kill-35-north-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunfire, round-the-clock curfew in restive Nigerian region, 6 August 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunfire-round-clock-curfew-restive-nigerian-region
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two suspected Boko Haram attacks kill 24 in Nigeria, 27 August 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/two-suspected-boko-haram-attacks-kill-24-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Boko Haram attacks kill 38 in Nigeria, 1 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-boko-haram-attacks-kill-38-nigeria-officials
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 15 in northeast Nigeria, 5 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-boko-haram-gunmen-kill-15-northeast-nigeria-residents
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military says killed 50 Boko Haram fighters, 6 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-says-killed-50-boko-haram-fighters
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Clashes between Boko Haram, Nigeria vigilantes kill 18, 9 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/clashes-between-boko-haram-nigeria-vigilantes-kill-18
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian troops kill 10 insurgents after air strike: army, 11 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-troops-kill-10-insurgents-after-air-strike-army
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian army claims 150 Islamists killed amid fresh violence, 18 September 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-army-claims-150-islamists-killed-amid-fresh-violence
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria bombs Boko Haram 'camp' near site of massacre, 3 October 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-bombs-boko-haram-camp-near-site-massacre
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 20 killed as Boko Haram, Nigerian troops clash in mosque attack, 7 October 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/20-killed-boko-haram-nigerian-troops-clash-mosque-attack
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military says killed 37 Boko Haram Islamists, 22 October 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-says-killed-37-boko-haram-islamists
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria says killed 95 Boko Haram fighters, 25 October 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-says-killed-95-boko-haram-fighters
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kill 40, torch 300 homes in Nigeria, 4 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kill-40-torch-300-homes-nigeria-official
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria president seeks state of emergency extension, 6 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-president-seeks-state-emergency-extension
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 7 dead in Nigeria raid on insurgents plotting 'attacks', 9 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/7-dead-nigeria-raid-insurgents-plotting-attacks
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian army says killed 20 Boko Haram Islamists, 16 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-army-says-killed-20-boko-haram-islamists
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military says bombed Boko Haram camps, 28 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-says-bombed-boko-haram-camps
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 24 in two separate attacks, 30 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerias-boko-haram-kills-24-two-separate-attacks-eyewitnesses
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian troops kill 50 Islamists after barracks assault, 23 December 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-troops-kill-50-islamists-after-barracks-assault
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 12 dead in suspected Boko Haram wedding attack, 30 December 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/12-dead-suspected-boko-haram-wedding-attack
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Gunmen kill five villagers in Nigeria: witnesses, 13 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-five-villagers-nigeria-witnesses
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: At least 17 dead in Nigeria market blast, 14 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-17-dead-nigeria-market-blast
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill 12 in raids on Nigerian village, three drown, 19 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-12-raids-nigerian-village-three-drown-locals
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: 'Boko Haram' kill teacher in Nigeria: police, locals, 21 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kill-teacher-nigeria-police-locals
AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 70 killed in Nigeria's attacks, 27 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-45-dead-nigeria-market-attack-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Death toll now 52 in Nigeria market attack, 28 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/death-toll-now-52-nigeria-market-attack-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram' arrests in Nigeria stoke 'profiling' fears, 4 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-arrests-nigeria-stoke-profiling-fears
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram gunmen attack Nigeria villages, kill 43, 12 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-nigeria-kills-39-governor
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Boko Haram raid kills nine Nigeria troops, 13 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-raid-kills-nine-nigeria-troops
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Hundreds flee north Nigeria town fearing attack: residents, 15 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/hundreds-flee-north-nigeria-town-fearing-attack-residents
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Boko Haram Islamists bomb Nigeria town, 19 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-boko-haram-islamists-bomb-nigeria-town-military
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 43 killed in Nigeria in suspected Boko Haram school attack, 26 February 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/death-toll-nigeria-school-massacre-rises-43-hospital-source
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Boko Haram violence hits healthcare in NE Nigeria: doctors, 9 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-violence-hits-healthcare-ne-nigeria-doctors
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Nigeria says 20 Islamists killed as schools shut after massacres, 6 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-says-20-islamists-killed-schools-shut-after-massacres
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria state shuts down schools for fear of attacks, 22 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-state-shuts-down-schools-fear-attacks
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria Islamists kill 17 in market attack: police, 23 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-islamists-kill-17-market-attack-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: 1,000 killed in Boko Haram conflict this year: Nigeria, 26 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/1000-killed-boko-haram-conflict-year-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Boko Haram kill five police, three civilians, 25 March 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-boko-haram-kill-five-police-three-civilians
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attack kills 17 in Nigeria, 6 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-kills-17-nigeria
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Islamist gunmen kill eight in northern Nigeria attack, 9 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/islamist-gunmen-kill-eight-northern-nigeria-attack-police
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Islamists kill 19 in northern Nigeria: witnesses, 11 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-islamists-kill-19-northern-nigeria-witnesses
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria capital beefs up security after deadly bombing, 15 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-capital-beefs-security-after-deadly-bombing
AFP - Agence France-Presse: Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school, 16 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/islamists-abduct-more-100-girls-nigeria-school
AI - Amnesty International: Amnesty International Report 2013 - The State of the World's Human Rights - Nigeria, 23 May 2013
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/nigeria/report-2013
AI - Amnesty International: Nigeria: Unlawful killings by Boko Haram may constitute crimes against humanity [AFR 44/029/2013], 6 November 2013
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR44/029/2013/en/3fc18888-9d47-4350-8873-a43b9c15153a/afr440292013en.pdf
AI - Amnesty International: Carnage in northern Nigeria amounts to crimes against humanity, 17 February 2014
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/nigeria-civilian-carnage-north-amounts-crimes-against-humanity-2014-02-17
AI - Amnesty International: Nigeria:Over 600 killed in the last two months, 28 February 2014
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/nigeria-must-protect-civilians-amid-alarming-increase-attacks-2014-02-28
AlertNet: Nigerian Islamists kill at least 159 in two attacks, 21 September 2013 (published by Reuters)
http://www.trust.org/item/20130920190433-689ih/?source=hptop
AlertNet: Nigerian Islamists kill 27 in northeast attacks, 29 September 2013 (published by Reuters)
http://www.trust.org/item/20130928195855-5q89z/?source=hptop
AlertNet: Nigerian Islamists attack barracks in volatile northeast - Army, 21 December 2013 (published by Reuters)
http://www.trust.org/item/20131221093820-rsiis/?source=hptop
BBC News: Nigeria attack: Song police station burnt down, 3 January 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20897659
BBC News: Nigeria 'arrests Boko Haram militant', 14 January 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21011340
BBC News: Nigeria: Gunmen attack Kano emir's convoy, 19 January 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21103322
BBC News: Nigeria: Kano reels after emir attack, 7 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21340480
BBC News: Boko Haram militants suspected of deadly attacks in Nigeria, 22 January 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21152122
BBC News: Nigerian militants suspected of Maiduguri beheadings, 23 January 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21162787
BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria raids 'kill 17 militants', 1 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21299327
BBC News: Foreign doctors killed in north-eastern Nigeria, 10 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21400330
BBC News: Nigeria Wazobia FM journalists held over polio deaths, 12 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21425923
BBC News: Nigeria Islamists Ansaru claim Bauchi Setraco seizures, 18 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21497044
BBC News: Nigeria army 'kills 20 Islamists', 3 March 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21649023
BBC News: Nigerian hostage deaths: Ansaru claims backed, 10 March 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21734036
BBC News: Kano blast: Nigeria bus station bomb toll rises, 19 March 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21845402
BBC News: Nigerian town of Ganye hit by deadly attacks, 23 March 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21914274
BBC News: Nigerian troops 'kill 14 Boko Haram militants' in Kano, 31 March 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21989075
BBC News: Nigeria moots amnesty for Boko Haram Islamist rebels, 5 April 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22042352
BBC News: Nigerian politician targeted in deadly Adamawa attack, 6 April 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22056195
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram rejects Jonathan's amnesty idea, 11 April 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22105476
BBC News: Baga raid: Satellite images 'show Nigeria army abuse', 1 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22366016
BBC News: Nigeria: 'Many dead in Boko Haram raid' in Borno state, 7 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22444417
BBC News: Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists 'arrested' in Maiduguri, 20 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22602736
BBC News: Boko Haram crisis Nigeria to free women, 21 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22618420
BBC News: Nigeria: Boko Haram in disarray, says army, 19 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22587901
BBC News: Nigeria army says crackdown to go on, 19 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22584765
BBC News: Nigeria army imposes curfew in Maiduguri, 18 May 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22581831
BBC News: Nigerian army bans satellite phones in Borno, 20 June 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22984219
BBC News: Nigeria school massacre: Yobe secondary schools closed, 7 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23221237
BBC News: Nigeria jails 'Boko Haram' militants for life, 9 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23245702
BBC News: Nigeria's vigilantes take on Boko Haram, 24 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23409387
BBC News: Nigeria vigilantes in deadly Boko Haram clashes, 29 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23490843
BBC News: Nigeria's Kano city hit by blasts targeting bars, 30 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23498757
BBC News: Nigeria unrest: 'Boko Haram' gunmen kill 44 at mosque, 13 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23676872
BBC News: Nigerian troops 'kill Boko Haram commander Momodu Bama', 14 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23704048
BBC News: Nigeria unrest: 'Boko Haram' in deadly attack on Damboa, 16 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23736053
BBC News: Is Boko Haram in Nigeria on the back foot?, 20 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23771688
BBC News: 'Boko Haram Islamists' kill 35 in Nigeria raid, 23 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23821622
BBC News: 'Boko Haram fighters' kill vigilantes in Borno, Nigeria, 27 August 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23859888
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram unrest: Scores dead in Benisheik raid, 19 September 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24169992
BBC News: Nigeria's 'Boko Haram': Abuja sees security forces targeted, 20 September 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24178048
BBC News: Nigeria attack: Students shot dead as they slept, 29 September 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24322683
BBC News: 'Boko Haram' gunmen kill 19 motorists in Nigeria, 20 October 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24604586
BBC News: Nigerian wedding party in Borno State massacred by gunmen, 3 November 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24798395
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Anger at lecturer Nazeef's arrest, 22 November 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25051886
BBC News: Nigeria raid: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 12, 23 November 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25073702
BBC News: Nigeria crisis: Boko Haram attack Maiduguri airbase, 2 December 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25187142
BBC News: Nigeria insurgents attack Bama military barracks, 20 December 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25472369
BBC News: Nigerian military 'kills Bama attackers', 24 December 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25505027
BBC News: Nigerian mosque attacked in Kano village of Kwankwaso, 8 January 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25655454
BBC News: Nigeria violence: Deadly bomb blast in Maiduguri, 14 January 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25732319
BBC News: Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan sacks military chiefs, 16 January 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25759755
BBC News: Nigeria 'Boko Haram' attacks leave scores dead, 27 January 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25916810
BBC News: Nigerian bishop tells of church 'slaughter' in Adamawa, 28 January 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25927205
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'in village massacre', 16 February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26220300
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Bama attack mars victory claims, 19 February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26254480
BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Emir's palace burnt in Bama, 20 February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26275207
BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Anger over second Izghe raid, 24 February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26322224
BBC News: Nigeria school raid in Yobe state leaves 29 dead, 25 February 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26338041
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram blamed for Adamawa killings, 27 February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26368183
BBC News: Twin Nigeria blasts kill at least 50 in Maiduguri, 1 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26403225
BBC News: Nigeria violence: Many die as militants destroy village, 2 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26408708
BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'attack' Borno state's Mafa town, 3 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26418161
BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram: 'Militants' kill villagers in raid, 4 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26439082
BBC News: Nigeria attack: Scores killed in Katsina state, 13 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26562931
BBC News: Nigeria attack: 'Hundreds of militants' target Maiduguri barracks, 14 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26575428
BBC News: Nigeria 'attempted jailbreak' leaves more than 20 dead, 31 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26814376
BBC News: Boko Haram Giwa barracks attack: Nigerian army 'killed hundreds', 31 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26819965
BBC News: Nigeria suicide attack 'kills 21' near Maiduguri, 1 April 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26846272
BBC News: Nigerian senator: '135 civilians killed' in attacks, 13 April 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27006876
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Nigeria: Sixteen die in weekend attacks on mourners in Plateau and Kaduna States, 25 February 2013
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1498&search=
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Weekend attacks in north-east Nigeria claim at least 50 lives, 14 August 2013
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1563&search=
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Boko Haram kills muslim cleric and eleven Christians, 3 February 2014
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1640&search=
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Nigeria: at least 200 dead in a week of terrorist violence, 18 February 2014
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1655&search=
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Nigeria: at least 40 students killed in Boko Haram attack on college, 26 February 2014
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1663&search=
CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: 20 dead in attack on mosque in Yobe State, 7 April 2014
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1683&search=
Guardian: British hostage 'likely to have been killed' in Nigeria, says William Hague, 10 March 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/10/nigerian-islamists-claim-foreign-hostages-killed
HRW - Human Rights Watch: World Report 2013 - Nigeria, 31 January 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/238819/361831_de.html
HRW - Human Rights Watch: Nigeria: Boko Haram Abducts Women, Recruits Children, 29 November 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
https://www.ecoi.net/local_link/264042/377693_en.html
HRW - Human Rights Watch: Nigeria: Northern Bombing Highlights Toll on Residents, 16 January 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/267347/381561_en.html
HRW - Human Rights Watch: Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Cause Humanitarian Crisis, 14 March 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/271868/387212_en.html
IPS - Inter Press Service - News Agency: Communication Blackout, Rights Abuses in Nigeria’s Emergency States, 7 June 2013
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/communication-blackout-rights-abuses-in-nigerias-emergency-states/
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Islamists kill Nigerian soldiers heading to Mali, 21 January 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
https://www.ecoi.net/local_link/236256/345222_en.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Displaced still homeless after clashes in Baga, Nigeria, 7 May 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/246531/370070_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Boko Haram attacks hit school attendance in Borno State, 14 May 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/247421/371006_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Analysis: Nigerians on the run as military combat Boko Haram, 22 May 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/247768/371362_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Military’s shutdown of NE Nigeria telecoms disrupts trade, 11 June 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/250012/373731_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Nigeria school attacks spur vigilante groups, 27 June 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/251422/375767_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: School closures in northeastern Nigeria after killings, 8 July 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/252324/376702_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Fear of violence slows polio immunization drive in Kano, 22. Oktober 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/261256/387419_de.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Detainee abuses "monumental" in northern Nigeria, 15 November 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/262828/376228_en.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Civilian vigilante groups increase dangers in northeastern Nigeria, 12 December 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
https://www.ecoi.net/local_link/264932/378752_en.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Nigerian overnight refugees worry Cameroon, 24 December 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
https://www.ecoi.net/local_link/265991/379983_en.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Displaced by Boko Haram, Nigerians risk invisibility in Niger, 30 January 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/268572/383186_en.html
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network: Violence grinds healthcare to a halt in Nigeria's Borno State, 5 February 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/268879/383661_en.html
Jamestown Foundation: Ansaru: A Profile of Nigeria's Newest Jihadist Movement; Terrorism Monitor Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 10 January 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
https://www.ecoi.net/local_link/237324/346342_en.html
NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre: The Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria, 22 February 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/20130220 Boko Haram in Nigeria.pdf
OHCHR - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Remarks By The High Commissioner For Human Rights At A Press Conference During Her Mission To Nigeria, 14 March 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/271987/387356_en.html
Reuters - AlertNet: Nigerian Islamist leader rejects peace talks in video, 4 March 2013 (published by Reuters)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/nigerian-islamist-leader-rejects-peace-talks-in-video/
Reuters - AlertNet: Suspected Islamists kill 11 in northeast Nigeria raid, 7 April 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-islamists-kill-11-northeast-nigeria-raid
Reuters - AlertNet: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave "brides", 18 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://www.trust.org/item/20131117092554-68m4x/?source=hptop
UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: UNHCR concerned about displace Nigerians, calls on neighbouring countries to keep borders open, 29 May 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/248815/372474_de.html
UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Nigeria's crisis sees more than 6000 people displaced into neighbouring countries, 11 June 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/250532/374604_de.html
UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: NE Nigeria insecurity sees refugee outflows spreading to Cameroon, 18 June 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/250556/374630_de.html
UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Some 5,500 Nigerians flee to Cameroon and Niger, 24 January 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/268509/383065_en.html
UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Deadly attacks reported in Nigeria's Lake Chad region, more people fleeing, 11 March 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/272015/387404_en.html
USCIRF - US Commission on International Religious Freedom: 2013 Annual Report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, 30 April 2013
http://www.uscirf.gov/images/2013%20USCIRF%20Annual%20Report%20%282%29.pdf
USDOS - US Department of State: Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2012 - Nigeria, 19 April 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/245102/368550_de.html
USDOS - US Department of State: 2012 International Religious Freedom Report - Nigeria, 20 May 2013 (available on ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/247445/371030_de.html
VOA - Voice of America: Residents in Northern Nigeria Rebuild Lives, Despite Fears, 22 July 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/residents-northern-nigeria-rebuild-lives-despite-fears
VOA - Voice of America: Nigerians Face More Violence, Emergency Rule in Northeast, 22 November 2013 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerians-face-more-violence-emergency-rule-northeast
VOA - Voice of America: Boko Haram Attacks Near Border Spark Fear in Cameroon, 17 January 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
http://reliefweb.int/report/cameroon/boko-haram-attacks-near-border-spark-fear-cameroon
This featured topic was prepared after researching solely on ecoi.net and within time constraints. It is meant to offer an overview on an issue and is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status, asylum or other form of international protection. Chronologies are not intended to be exhaustive. Every quotation comes from a document available on ecoi.net and is referred to with a hyperlink to the respective document on ecoi.net.
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