Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād[24] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad '), [25] is a self …

In mid-2021, longtime Boko Haram amir Abubakar Shekau killed himself to avoid capture during an offensive by rival group ISIS–West Africa. Since then, Boko Haram has lost most of its …

Aug 28, 2023 · Boko Haram can exploit the Niger crisis to regroup and re-strategise. Terrorist movement from Sahel to the Lake Chad region was recently reported.

Dec 20, 2024 · In less than a month, Boko Haram terrorists operating along the Bassa and Allawa axes of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State planted at least four explosives that …

Aug 8, 2018 · Boko Haram is a top-tier threat to Africa’s most populous country. An insurgency led by the Islamist group has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions more in …

In late May, the world rejoiced as 83 Nigerian schoolgirls—kidnapped, along with 194 others, by the vicious jihadist insurgency Boko Haram in Chibok in April 2014 to be sex and labor...

Boko Haram have carried out many attacks against the military, police and civilians since 2009, mostly in Nigeria. The low-intensity conflict is centred on Borno State. It peaked in the mid …

Boko Haram’s violence—including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Borno State, Nigeria, in April 2014—brought international condemnation and in February 2015 provoked a large …

Jan 13, 2025 · Boko Haram, Islamic sectarian movement, founded in 2002 by Mohammed Yusuf in northeastern Nigeria, that since 2009 has carried out assassinations and large-scale acts of …

What if the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeri­a is ‘programmed’ to continue in perpetuity? Nigerians are increasingly frustrated with the Bola Tinubu administration, none more so than …