Slaughter of Villagers, Destruction of Towns by Boko Haram "Catastrophic"

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/23/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKCN0QS0PU20150823?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Boko Haram members ambush convoy of Nigeria's chief of army staff

 

Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying Nigeria's chief of army staff on a tour of towns in troubled Borno state, the army said early on Sunday.

 

One Nigerian soldier died while 10 militants were killed and another five captured, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.

 

Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai was appointed in July as the new chief of army staff after President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the military's top brass. The new chiefs are far more active in visiting areas under pressure in the northeast.

 

"The leading column was ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at Faljari village between Mafa and Dikwa," Usman said.

 

Buhari has made quashing Boko Haram his priority since taking office. Boko Haram's quick wins last year exposed the weakness of Nigeria's military that has been badly managed for years.

 

Since his appointment, Buratai's home town in Borno has also been attacked several times.

 

His convoy was ambushed as he was visiting the region, the heartland of Boko Haram's six-year insurgency aimed at carving out an Islamist state.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chad-executes-boko-haram-fighters/ar-AAdKmVH

 

Ten members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have been executed by firing squad in Chad.

It comes a day after they were found guilty of terror charges at a trial in the capital N'Djamena.

Security sources said they were shot at a firing range north of the capital.

All 10 were convicted over their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38. A month after the attack, Chad reintroduced the death penalty for acts of terror.

"They were shot this morning at the Massaguet firing range," a source told Reuters news agency, referring to a city about 60km (40 miles) north-east of N'Djamena.

Among those to die was Mahamat Mustapha, aka Bana Fanaye, who had been described as the "mastermind" of June's attacks.

 

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I didn't realize Nigeria used firing squads for executions.

 

 

 

 

Saw this earlier:

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/30/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKCN0QZ0UF20150830?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Nigeria's security agency says arrested 20 suspected Boko Haram chiefs

 

Nigeria's security agency said on Sunday it had made significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram and arrested 20 prominent members of the militant Islamist group accused of orchestrating deadly attacks.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko Haram's six-year-old insurgency a priority, but a Reuters tally shows the militants have killed more than 700 people in Nigeria in bomb attacks and shootings since he came to office on May 29.

 

In the latest violence, around 56 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen at a village in northeastern Borno state on Friday night, Borno state governor Kashim Shettima said late on Saturday.

 

The Department of State Services (DSS) said on Sunday that 20 "notable commanders and frontline members" of the jihadist group had been arrested in Lagos, Kano, Plateau, Enugu and Gombe states between July 8 and Aug. 25 this year.

 

The DSS said it had arrested those suspected of coordinating attacks earlier this year in the northern cities of Potiskum, Kano and Zaria, as well as the central city of Jos, adding that a number of them had made confessions.

 

"This followed the rounding up of notable commanders and frontline members of the notorious group from different parts of the country," DSS spokesman Tony Opuiyo said in a statement.

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I didn't realize Nigeria used firing squads for executions.

 

 

I didn't know Nigeria had annexed Chad! 

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I didn't know Nigeria had annexed Chad! 

Whoops.  I must have misread that.  My bad.  I guess I assumed it was in Nigeria.  

WTF, how did I miss that this was about Chad?  It mentions Chad throughout the article.  

I hang my head in shame.  

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/haram-fighters-horseback-kill-villagers-150831164417967.html

'Boko Haram fighters on horseback' kill villagers

 

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback have shot dead nearly 80 people in attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast at the weekend, a vigilante and residents have said.

 

Vigilante Babakura Kolo said 68 people were killed in the attack on Baanu village in Borno state late on Friday while residents said another 11 people were shot dead in two other villages on Saturday and Sunday.

 

"Reports reached us of an attack on Baanu village late on Friday where Boko Haram gunmen riding on horses opened fire on the village. Sixty-eight people were killed in the attack," Kolo told the AFP news agency on Monday.

 

He said the gunmen stormed Baanu around 19:30 GMT, shooting sporadically.

 

A government official, who demanded anonymity, put the death toll in Baanu at 56.

 

Video showing a Nigerian operation against Boko Haram

 

Kolo also said four people were killed in another attack by Boko Haram in Karnuwa village on Saturday.

 

"They shot dead four people in the village, including the chief imam of the village, his son and two neighbours," he said.

 

Local resident Saleh Musa told AFP of a third attack on Hambagda on Sunday where attackers had killed seven villagers and injured five others.

 

"The attackers arrived on horseback around 2:00 pm while people were praying in the mosque," said Musa, who later fled to the nearby town of Askira Uba.

 

"They went straight to the mosque and opened fire on worshippers.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/10/us-nigeria-violence-casualties-idUSKCN0S40SU20151010?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bomb attack kills 38 in Chad

 

Thirty-eight people, including five attackers, were killed and another 51 were wounded on Saturday in a series of suicide bombings in a town in Chad suspected to be the work of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militant group, a local government official said.

 

Witnesses in Baga Sola, a border town on Lake Chad, reported three explosions in the town's market and a refugee camp. A hospital source confirmed the death toll given by local sub-prefect Dimoya Souapebe.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/14/us-nigeria-bokoharam-usa-idUSKCN0S823F20151014?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Obama sends 300 U.S. troops to Cameroon in anti-Boko Haram fight

 

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday informed Congress he is sending about 300 U.S. military personnel to Cameroon, the White House said, part of a stepped-up effort by Washington to counter the violent group Boko Haram.

 

An advance force of U.S. military personnel has arrived in Cameroon, an administration official said on condition of anonymity.

 

http://time.com/4072860/nigeria-suicide-bombing-boko-haram/

Triple Suicide Bombing Kills Seven in Northeast Nigerian City

 

Three bomb blasts in as many minutes exploded in Maiduguri, killing at least seven people, witnesses and the army said Wednesday from the northeastern city that is the birthplace of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.

 

The third attack in recent weeks on the densely populated suburb of Anilari-Cross came Tuesday night as residents exhausted by daytime temperatures that soared to 39 degrees Celsius (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit) were coming out of stuffy homes to enjoy the evening breeze.

 

“We had to rush into the house,” said resident Abubakar Sadiq. He said the three explosions were followed by gunfire.

 

Civilian self-defense fighter Abbas Gava said a dozen people were killed and wounded in three suicide bombings. Army spokesman Col. Sani Usman said seven people were killed in what appeared to be suicide bombings staged by Boko Haram.

 

Also Tuesday, soldiers attacked militants believed responsible for an attack last week on a military camp in Geidam town, also in Borno state, Usman said. The soldiers killed 10 insurgents and captured an anti-aircraft gun, rifles and submachine guns as well as an all-terrain vehicle, he said.

 

“The noose is tightening around the terrorists,” Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters tweeted this week. “We will continue the momentum until terrorists are extinct in Nigeria.”

 

Hopes were high earlier this year when Chadian troops helped the Nigerians to drive Boko Haram out of a large swath of northeast Nigeria which it had declared an Islamic caliphate.

 

But the insurgents have reverted to suicide bombings and hit-and-run raids and staged increasingly frequent and deadly attacks across borders into three neighboring states since President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in March, promising to crush the 6-year-old uprising that Amnesty International estimates has killed 20,000 people.

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BREAKING: 26 dead, 25 injured in bombing that totally destroys mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria, according to Civilian Joint Task Force.
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2 explosions in Maiduguri, Nigeria: 1 inside mosque, 1 at checkpoint outside. Both suicide bombers, according to Civilian Joint Task Force.
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BREAKING Dozens killed in suicide bombings in NE Nigeria, witnesses say

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/world/africa/nigerian-military-says-it-has-rescued-over-300-held-by-boko-haram.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur

Nigerian Military Says It Has Rescued Over 300 Held by Boko Haram

 

The militant group Boko Haram has haunted northern Nigeria for years by kidnapping, looting, carrying out suicide bombings and other atrocities that have spread to the nation’s capital, even across the country’s borders.

 

The militants kidnapped scores of girls from a secondary school in an event that captured the world’s attention last year and prompted a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media that enlisted the American first lady, Michelle Obama.

 

On Tuesday, the Nigerian military said it had freed more than 300 kidnapping victims, most of them women and children, in a rescue operation in a remote forested area that killed at least 30 Boko Haram fighters. A news release from the military that said eight men, 138 women and 192 children were rescued and that weapons and ammunition were confiscated.

 

While this news would come as a huge relief to the people of Nigeria and beyond, it is difficult to verify. The militants operate in a secluded region and officials in the nearest major city, Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria, were unable to confirm the rescue. The Nigerian military has made rescue claims in the past that have proved impossible to verify. However, with a new president, Muhammadu Buhari, in office and new leadership of the military, information has been expected to be more reliable.

 

Several experts on Nigeria and Boko Haram were skeptical about the military’s assertions on Wednesday, saying the announcement could be part of a propaganda war, or mere fiction offered as a morale lift for citizens worn down by the devastating tactics of the militants. On Tuesday night, for example, Boko Haram was accused of looting and burning a village in southeastern Niger near the Nigerian border, killing 14 people, according to Reuters.

 

“The trust issue comes from a legacy of poor communication from the armed forces over Boko Haram activity,” said Elizabeth Donnelly, assistant head of the Africa program for Chatham House, an independent policy research group in London, and an expert on Boko Haram.

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I wish these poor people had oil under them, so we'd go fight for them or diamonds, so they could be peacefully enslaved.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-nigeria-violence-chad-idUSKCN0SY2E620151109?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Chad declares state of emergency in Boko Haram-hit region
 

N'Chad has declared a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region after a series of attacks there by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the government said on Monday.

 

Communications Minister Hassan Sylla Bakari said the order, effective immediately, would grant authorities new powers to search and monitor residents in the region.

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BREAKING: 32 killed, 80 wounded in blast at market in northeastern Nigerian city of Yola: Red Cross
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As long as the atrocity is contained half a world away, we won't really care here. A) People don't really care about Africa in general, and B ) Nobody's afraid of Bono Haram coming over here causing trouble. It's unfortunate.

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As long as the atrocity is contained half a world away, we won't really care here. A) People don't really care about Africa in general, and B ) Nobody's afraid of Bono Haram coming over here causing trouble. It's unfortunate.

 

Unfortunately, you're right. I feel terrible for the people of Nigeria. But this isn't getting the press because they haven't shown to be a worldwide threat like ISIS.

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Boko Haram kills over 50 people in two days of attacks

 

Over 50 people were killed in a 48-hour wave of attacks blamed on Boko Haram jihadists in northeastern Nigeria, sources said Monday, days ahead of the government's deadline to stamp out the group.

 

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari pledged to end the insurgency by December 31, saying Thursday his government had "technically" defeated Boko Haram and reduced the group's capacity to mount "conventional" attacks in Africa's most populous nation.

 

But in an expected show of defiance, Boko Haram countered with a series of devastating attacks on towns in the country's northeast, claiming dozens of fatalities in a bloody killing spree that began Christmas Day.

 

Riding astride bicycles, fighters invaded Kimba village in Borno state -- a Boko Haram stronghold -- Friday, shooting and killing at least 14 residents before torching their homes.

Two days later, the militants launched rocket-propelled grenades and used a small army of suicide bombers, killing 22 people in the key northeastern city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the insurgency.

 

"There have been more than a dozen suicide blasts in Maiduguri between last night and this morning," Babakura Kolo, a civilian vigilante assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram, told AFP on Monday.

 

"The suicide attacks were carried out by young suicide bombers who managed to make their way into the city during the gun battle between soldiers and Boko Haram gunmen last night."

Further attacks rocked the town of Madagali in Adamawa state Monday, when two young female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a busy market, killing a reported 30 people.

 

Analysts say the Christmas attacks are a "damaging" set back for Buhari, who was voted into power in May on a platform promising to tackle the Boko Haram threat.

 

"Saying Boko Haram is 'technically' defeated in a period where the organisation is historically very active - Christmas - could only make him look bad," Yan St-Pierre, terrorism analyst at Berlin-based Modern Security Consulting Group, told AFP.

"President Buhari's credibility and popularity will be greatly damaged by this," St-Pierre said.

 

"Boko Haram is still extremely dangerous, and it's gaining resources, notoriety, credibility and successfully expanding its reach," St-Pierre said.

 

In their quest to create an independent Islamic state, the insurgents have been carrying out deadly cross-border raids in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, fuelling fears that the hardline Muslim movement is growing into a regional jihadist threat.

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Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead: officials

 

DALORI, Nigeria — A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.

 

Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s northeast.

 

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Survivor claims Boko Haram burned kids alive in attack that kills 86

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/31/boko-haram-attack-village/79623914/

 

I just cant believe this...I'm at a loss for words 

 

And yet no major news organization has this on their front pages. I imagine if this was ISIS or some turban wearing Arabs this would be front and center. 

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/chad-deploys-soldiers-niger-160608151013805.html

Chad deploys 2,000 soldiers to troubled Niger

 

About 2,000 troops from Chad have arrived in Niger, where Boko Haram fighters have inflicted losses and displaced tens of thousands in the country's southeast, the Reuters news agency has reported.

 

Citing two unnamed military sources, Reuters said Chadian troops had arrived in the neighbouring country on Tuesday and were advancing on Bosso, a town near Lake Chad that has been the scene of clashes in recent days.

 

The attacks on Bosso, a military garrison close to the border with Nigeria, began on Friday.

 

At least 32 soldiers, including two from neighbouring Nigeria, were killed, authorities said on Saturday. A total of 55 fighters belonging to Boko Haram were also killed and "many" others injured.

 

On Wednesday, UNHCR's Louise Donovan, told Al Jazeera that more than 17,000 people had arrived in the town of Diffa following the fierce fighting in Bosso. There were 2,600 children among the displaced.

 

The UN says up to 50,000 people have fled the town, the majority of whom are now living in the open and in precarious conditions.

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More than 100 refugees and aid workers were killed in Tuesday's bombing in the northeast camp near the border with Cameroon, a government official has told The Associated Press. The Red Cross statement said an estimated 70 people were killed, plus at least six aid volunteers, and said it was "shocked" by the civilian deaths.

 

Nigeria's military said it had been trying to target Boko Haram fighters. It is believed to be the first time Nigeria's military has acknowledged making such a mistake in a region where villagers have reported civilian casualties in near-daily bombings targeting the extremists.

 

 

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