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Nigeria
Boko Haram militants burned the Borno state village of Dalwa-Masuba to the ground over the weekend and killed at least 40 residents. Police foiled a car bombing today in Kano; a suicide car bombing yesterday killed at least four people and wounded many more in a mainly Christian neighborhood. Security was stepped up around secondary schools in Benue state after a purported Boko Haram threat to abduct students. Negotiations are reportedly ongoing between Boko Haram and the government for the release of at least 100 kidnapped schoolgirls. At a security summit on May 17, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Chad, and Niger…
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Boko Haram
The exodus of Nigeria’s Christians
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Boko Haram
US Officials Question Ability of Nigeria to Rescue Hostages
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Boko Haram
Chibok: the village that lost its daughters to Boko Haram
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Boko Haram
Nigerians defy terror to keep learning
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Nigeria
Soldiers in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri fired on Maj. Gen. Ahmed Mohammed, whom they blamed for the deaths of their comrades in a Boko Haram ambush. Vigilantes in Borno yesterday ambushed two trucks of Boko Haram militants who were allegedly planning to attack, killing scores of militants and detaining at least 10. The Adamawa state governor reiterated his opposition to emergency rule. Federal officials warned religious groups against making inflammatory statements about Boko Haram’s kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls. After Interpol issued a red alert for Nyana bombing suspect Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, the UK-born militant, who once served…
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Kidnapped girls appear in latest Boko Haram video
Showing the kidnapped girls in its latest video, Boko Haram demands that the Nigerian government release prisoners in exchange for the girls’ freedom.
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Nigeria
US surveillance planes and commercial satellites are being used to help find a large group of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The Nigerian government indicated it is open to talks with the kidnappers. Nigerian authorities arrested five suspects in the Boko Haram bombings of Nyanya motor park, and said two alleged masterminds, Rufai Tsiga and Aminu Ogwuche, are wanted. President Jonathan asked that the state of emergency in Yobe, Adamawa, and Borno be extended for six months. A jihadist research center called on Boko Haram to release the kidnapped girls.
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Al Qaeda
Boko Haram’s bin Laden connection
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Nigeria
In a video released by Boko Haram, leader Abubakar Shekau spoke of releasing the kidnapped schoolgirls in exchange for the release of “brothers” jailed in various Nigerian cities. Borno state governor Kashim Shettima claimed to have given authorities information on the whereabouts of the kidnapped schoolgirls. A joint military operation to recover the girls commences this week. Police in Plateau state arrested a man suspected of spying for Boko Haram at a police barracks in Jos. Reports claimed that in 2013 the US ignored Nigeria’s requests for help in combating Boko Haram. US intelligence indicates linkage between Boko Haram and…
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Iran
Christians persecuted at alarming rate in Iran, Arab world, US report says
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Boko Haram
Boko Haram’s five-year battle to impose caliphate kills thousands
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Boko Haram
This is not just Nigeria’s war on terrorists – it’s the world’s fight too
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants blew up a bridge connecting Adamawa and Borno states, killed a number of people, and abducted a woman and her two children; on May 5, militants blew up a bridge that linked Nigeria to Chad. About 50 of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls were reportedly sighted in the Central African Republic last week accompanied by armed Seleka rebels. Nigerian authorities denied reports that US Marines have been deployed or made arrests. President Jonathan reportedly refused earlier US assistance because President Obama had seemed more focused on allegations of human rights abuses by the Nigerian military.
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Boko Haram
UN condemns terrorists in Nigeria, calls for punishment, demands release of kidnapped girls
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Boko Haram
Boko Haram exploits Nigeria’s slow military decline
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Boko Haram
Nigeria abductions: Warnings of school raid ‘ignored’
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Nigeria
The Army rejected the accusation that it had four hours’ warning before Boko Haram’s abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Borno on April 14. President Jonathan said he thinks the girls are still in Nigeria and have not been moved to Cameroon. Experts from the US and the UK have arrived in Nigeria to help recover the kidnapped schoolgirls. Jonathan claimed that the planners of the two Nyana bombings have been arrested and are assisting authorities find their financiers. US Marines helping the Nigerian government in its efforts against Boko Haram reportedly arrested two suspected militants in Benue state. Police…
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Al Qaeda
Hillary’s State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists
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Boko Haram rampages in northeastern Nigeria
Jihadists surrounded a village, gunned down civilians, and then set buildings on fire in Boko Haram’s latest assault in the lawless northeast.
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Nigeria
Boko Haram militants in armored vehicles stormed the town of Gamboru Ngala in Borno near the Cameroon border, killing at least 300 people, and burning down 200 vehicles and nearly all of the houses and shops, in a 12-hour rampage. Security forces guarding the town had withdrawn shortly before the attack, allegedly to pursue a reported sighting of the militants. The militants had abducted 11 girls from nearby towns the day before. Security was tight in Abuja for the World Economic Forum.
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Boko Haram
Boko Haram: An unconventional war with new challenges
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight schoolgirls in Warabe, in Borno state near the Cameroon border; senior Boko Haram commander Mamman Nur, who reportedly trained with Shabaab, operates in the area. The Army spokesman said some of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are the daughters of defense headquarters personnel. Police recovered a van stolen by gunmen who attacked an international school near Abuja in an alleged kidnapping attempt.
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Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped girls
In a video released by Boko Haram, group leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping on April 14 and threatened to sell the schoolgirls.
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Nigeria
The leader of Boko Haram threatened to sell the 276 kidnapped schoolgirls. In a video released today, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed the kidnapping of the girls and said “Western education must end.” President Jonathan vowed to recover the girls, and said he had asked for military support from the US and closer security cooperation from France, Britain, and China. A US official said that the girls likely have been taken into neighboring countries.
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Nigeria
Security forces in Abuja detained eight suspected militants, mainly foreigners, in advance of this week’s World Economic Forum conference. The national labor union urged the government not to dismiss Boko Haram’s claim that it has a base in Abuja; a retired top general said Abuja is under siege. A Christian group released a list of the names of 165 Christian and 15 Muslim schoolgirls held captive by Boko Haram and demanded their release as well as overseas scholarships for them. The US offered to help Nigeria find the girls. Authorities in southern states are bracing against the reported expansion of…
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Nigeria
The US Embassy warned of a potential terrorist attack on a Sheraton hotel in Lagos. The Nigerian military is said to be mobilizing for an assault on Boko Haram militants in the Sambisa forest in Borno in an attempt to free 276 kidnapped schoolgirls. Boko Haram gunmen killed 10 people along the Maiduguri- Beneshiek- Damaturu road in Borno and seized seven vehicles. The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, vowed defiance against the threats of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.
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Nigeria
A suspected Boko Haram suicide car bombing killed 30 people and injured scores more in Abuja. A negotiator for the Boko Haram militants who have kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls said the kidnappers are demanding a ransom and that the military knows their location; some reports said the girls had been taken to Chad or Cameroon. Protests demanding the girls’ release have spread since their abduction on April 14.
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Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed eight people in Adamawa state and burned houses and churches. The governor of Niger state said he has formed a two-man committee to flush Boko Haram out of the state, following the discovery of a Boko Haram-linked terrorist group in Bida. The families of the more than 230 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14 were told that the militants have since conducted mass marriages and are sharing the girls as wives. Foreign Affairs Minister Wali said that terrorism now poses the main threat to African countries.
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Nigeria
Some 40 Boko Haram militants were killed when soldiers repelled the militants’ attack on a base in the Damboa area of Borno state during six hours of fighting; four soldiers were also killed and nine were wounded. Three civil servants were killed by Boko Haram in an ambush outside an agricultural college in Gujba in Yobe state; five women were abducted by the militants in the attack. A group of 40 gunmen stormed a police station in the Maradun area of Zamfara state, killing two children and injuring their mother.
