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Nigeria
Boko Haram is suspected of kidnapping a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers from a construction site in Bauchi. The military is establishing a task force to deal with terrorist attacks.
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Nigeria
The Kano state police commissioner ordered the arrest of three journalists at Wazobia FM radio after nine polio vaccination workers were killed on Feb. 8, accusing the journalists of broadcasting comments that sparked the attacks. One of the journalists was released today. There is no evidence linking the broadcast to the murders.
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Al Qaeda
Timbuktu: al-Qaeda’s terrorist training academy in the Mali desert
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Nigeria
Three Korean doctors on contract to the Yobe state ministry were murdered in front of their wives at their homes in Potiskum; one of the men was beheaded. Boko Haram is suspected.
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on motorbikes killed nine polio health workers in Kano. Some Muslim leaders in Kano claim the vaccination campaign is a plot against Muslim children.
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed six park rangers and captured several more in an attack at the Sambisa game reserve. The attack was apparently in reprisal for a military assault on a Boko Haram camp last week.
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Al Qaeda
Timbuktu Training Site Shows Terrorists’ Reach
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Nigeria
Security forces killed 17 Boko Haram fighters during two raids on training camps in Borno state. One soldier was also killed in the fighting. The raids occur despite a supposed truce that is being observed by Boko Haram.
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Al Qaeda
‘Darker Sides’: The Vast Islamist Sanctuary of ‘Sahelistan’
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Nigeria
Boko Haram has reportedly agreed to a ceasefire with the governor of Borno state. Boko Haram commander Mohammed Sani escaped from prison in November 2012.
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African Union
In Mali, French Troops Step Up Role
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France
Mali Army, Riding US Hopes, Is Proving No Match for Militants
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Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters murdered and then beheaded five people in Maiduguri. The military said it killed two Boko Haram fighters in the city and detained three more. President Goodluck Jonathan said the military is in Mali to protect Nigerian citizens.
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Africa
Map: The countries most at risk for a coup in 2013
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Nigeria
“Suspected Islamist gunmen” killed 18 people, including hunters, in Damboa. An Islamist group called Ansura claimed credit for an IED attack that killed two soldiers who were deploying to Mali.
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ECOWAS
Ivory Coast Leader: ‘Germany Should Also Send Troops to Mali’
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Nigeria
The Islamist group Ansaru claimed an attack on a convoy of Nigerian troops in Kogi state, saying it was to stop African countries from joining the intervention against Islamists in Mali. Suspected Islamist gunmen killed four people in Kano state in an attack on the convoy of a senior Muslim leader.
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Nigeria
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau was wounded in a gunbattle with the Joint Task Force and escaped to Mali. Two soldiers who were preparing to deploy to Mali were killed in an IED attack in Kogi.
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Nigeria
Authorities arrested two men suspected of plotting a double suicide attack against a church at a military base in Kaduna in November 2012 in which 15 people were killed. Other suspects are also being questioned about the attack, which was blamed on Boko Haram.
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Nigeria
Mohammed Zahinga, a wanted Boko Haram leader behind “most of the suicide attacks and bombings in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Jos and Potiskum” was arrested near Maiduguri. Zahinga, a.k.a. Mallam Abdullahi and Alhaji Musa, was plotting attacks against civilians and security personnel in the city,
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Analysis: French early strike shakes up Mali intervention plan
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Nigeria
Officials in the east-central state of Benue confirmed that Boko Haram has infiltrated the state and appealed to the federal government to deploy antiterrorism forces to Benue. In Kano state, police said they had recovered 1,123 improved explosive devices in the state in 2012 and had defused 68 such devices that year.
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants staged a brazen attack against the Nigerian Prison Service Farm Center in Maiduguri, freeing several jailed inmates. The previous day, Boko Haram militants and Nigerian state security forces clashed near Maiduguri and Marte, leaving at least seven killed.
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Al Qaeda
Sahel security global threat, 8-14,000 Jihadists now in Mali, region, to double in year: Study
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Nigeria
Nigeria Emerges as Center for Pirate Attacks
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed a soldier, a policeman, an old woman, and her grandchild at the police and municipal headquarters in Song in Adamawa state; they also burned the buildings. Similar attacks took place last week in Maiha, Hong, and Fufore, also in Adamawa state, which borders Cameroon.
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Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that most of the Boko Haram members involved in major attacks throughout the country in 2011 “have been arrested.” The attacks he mentioned included the suicide attack in the UN building and police headquarters in Abuja.
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Nigeria
The army claimed it killed 13 Boko Haram militants in a gun battle in Maiduguri. One soldier also died in the clash, which erupted after the militants bombed army checkpoints.
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Al Qaeda
In Nigeria, trapped between Islamist radicals and security forces
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Nigeria
A senior church pastor of the Nigerian Church of the Brethren announced that around 50 of their churches had been burnt and at least 109 members had been killed in northern Nigeria since the insurrection by Boko Haram began. A former president of Nigeria predicted that the existence of Boko Haram will soon come to an end.
