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Nigeria
The Joint Task Force killed nine Boko Haram fighters and detained two more during a clash in the town of Tudun Wada Dakadai in Kano state. Boko Haram fighters attacked a police station and a bank in the town.
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Nigeria
Boko Haram said it would not participate in further talks with the government and that it would continue to wage jihad to establish sharia law in the country. “We have closed all possible doors for negotiation,” said spokesman Abu Qaqa.
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Nigeria
Talks between the government and Boko Haram have stalled after details of the negotiations were leaked to the press. The head of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, who served as the mediator between the two, has resigned and blamed the government for talking to the press.
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Nigeria
Boko Haram killed 10 people, including a priest, in an attack on a church in the Kufara area of Kaduna state. Archbishop Kaigama of Jos urged the government not to negotiate with Boko Haram.
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Nigeria
Boko Haram reportedly offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of prisoners in government custody. Boko Haram conducted 196 bombings in 2011, compared to 52 in 2010.
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Boko Haram
Jonathan: Nigeria takes share of blame for failed hostage rescue
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Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan has initiated peace talks with Boko Haram. The Nigerian government wants a ceasefire in exchange for the release of Boko Haram foot soldiers.
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Africa
Australian ‘special forces gathering intelligence in Africa’
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Nigeria
The “mastermind” of the kidnapping and murder of two Europeans died in custody. Police said that Ali Mohammed was the leader of a Boko Haram splinter group in Sokoto.
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Nigeria
A Boko Haram suicide bomber killed three civilians in a bombing outside of a church in Jos. The suicide bomber was stopped before he could enter the compound. Boko Haram claimed credit for the attack.
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Al Qaeda
My 130 days in the hands of al-Qaeda’s African “monsters”, by former hostage
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Nigeria
A Boko Haram spokesman denied that his group was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of a British and an Italian hostage during a failed raid late last week. More than 100 Nigerian and British soldiers and two helicopters were used during the raid in Sokoto.
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Nigeria
“Gunmen” killed a civilian and wounded three policemen in an attack on a police station in Kano. British special forces carried out the failed raid that resulted in the deaths of a British and an Italian hostage.
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Al Qaeda
Hostage tragedy: Nigeria is in danger of turning into a blood-soaked African Pakistan
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Blood, Recriminations in Wake of Nigeria Mission
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Nigeria
Two hostages, one British and one Italian, were killed during a failed rescue attempt; they were being held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The government has charged a man with serving as a key link between Boko Haram and al Qaeda. A leader of Muslims in Port Harcourt denied that mosques and schools are being used to store weapons and provide military training for Boko Haram.
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Al Qaeda
Nigeria: Radical Islamist sect sets another school ablaze amid international watchdog warning
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Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters attacked government offices, a police station, and a prison in Maiduguri. Three Boko Haram fighters who were killed in Maiduguri on March 5 were attempting to torch a school. An anonymous Boko Haram spokesman said “the group would “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women.”
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Nigeria
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, reportedly escaped a raid in Kano last week; his ex-wife is said to have been detained. Boko Haram fighters killed two security guards at the home of the state commissioner of police in Kano.
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Nigeria
Three policemen were killed by “gunmen” in Kano, where Boko Haram has attacked security forces in the past. A senior US official said that the US will consider providing security assistance to Nigeria.
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Boko Haram plans ‘to eradicate Christians’ from areas in Nigeria
“We will create so much effort to end the Christian presence in our push to have a proper Islamic state that the Christians won’t be able to stay,” a spokesman said.
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Nigeria
“Gunmen” killed four people in attacks in Maiduguri. Boko Haram’s spokesman said the terror group “will launch a number of attacks, coordinated and part of the plan to eradicate Christians from certain parts of the country.”
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Al Qaeda
Top US General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked African terror groups
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Nigeria
The Joint Task Force killed four Boko Haram members during a clash yesterday in Borno. Officials blamed Boko Haram for a bomb blast at a factory in Maiduguri that killed three people.
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Boko Haram
Boko Haram, soldiers clash in Maiduguri
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Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed a policeman during attacks on a bank and a police station in Bauchi. Boko Haram fighters are suspected of torching a school in Maiduguri.
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Nigeria
Security forces arrested seven people suspected of plotting to bomb a church in Bauchi. The government deported more than 11,000 foreigners in response to attacks by Boko Haram.
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Nigeria
A Boko Haram suicide bomber killed six Christians during an attack at a church in Jos. Christians retaliated and killed three people during riots in the city.
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Boko Haram suicide bomber attacks Nigerian church
The Islamist terror group continues to deploy suicide bombers against Christian churches.
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Al Qaeda
No end in sight for Boko Haram’s onslaught in Nigeria
