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At least 23 people killed in suspected Boko Haram suicide attacks in north-eastern Nigeria

At least 23 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in multiple suspected suicide bombings in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, shattering its reputation as a relative oasis of calm in recent years as a long-running insurgency was pushed to the rural hinterlands.

Authorities said the explosions went off at the post office and market areas, as well as the entrance to the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital, on Monday evening during iftar, the breaking of fast in the month of Ramadan.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2026March 17, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Nigeria

Muslims affiliated with Boko Haram killed at least 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village

The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say.

On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers.

The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30 militants in strikes after receiving reports of the raid on the village, where residents had recently returned following years of displacement.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2025September 7, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

Death of Boko Haram’s leader spells trouble for Nigeria and its neighbors

Several times in the past, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was declared dead, only to reappear in videos taunting the government of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Nevertheless, Nigerian security expert Kabir Adamu is fairly sure that this time Shekau was killed. “Every sort of source that could confirm the information has verified that it is true,” he told DW.

Boko Haram’s rival, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), claimed that Shekau detonated a suicide vest during a gunfight in Sambisa forest on May 18, to avoid being taken prisoner and made to renounce the leadership of his group.

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2021June 8, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Islam, Islam and violence

Call the ACLU! Isis in Nigeria cannot claim reward for Boko Haram leader, says US

The US government has told Islamic State-affiliated fighters in Nigeria they are not eligible for a reward after reports that the leader of Boko Haram had died during clashes in a forest in the north-east.

The US state department had offered $7m (£4.9m) for information about the identity or location of Abubakar Shekau as part of its global counter-terrorism rewards programme aimed at tracking down leading violent extremists and other fugitives.

It is thought Shekau either killed or badly injured himself on Wednesday by detonating explosives strapped around his waist to escape capture by fighters from Isis’s West Africa Province, known as Iswap, which had stormed his stronghold in the vast Sambisa Forest.

That’s discrimination!

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2021May 22, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Islam, Islam and violence, USA, WTF?

Smuggled diary tells how abducted women survived Boko Haram camp

The resistance began three months after the young women were taken from their school dormitory by Islamist militants and hidden in the depths of a forest. It would end in direct confrontation and disobedience, and an unlikely victory which saved their lives.

But as the extremists of Boko Haram drove them through the bush to camps beyond the reach of any rescue, freedom was years away.

The story of the extraordinary courage of the women held for up to three years by the Islamist extremists in north-eastern Nigeria has never been told, despite the massive global attention focused on their abduction in April 2014.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2021February 21, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Islam, Islam and violence

Mostly Peaceful Muslims of Boko Haram slaughter dozens of farm workers in Nigeria

Boko Haram fighters killed at least 43 farm workers and wounded six in rice fields near the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, anti-jihadist militia told AFP.

The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe, the militia said.

“We have recovered 43 dead bodies, all of them slaughtered, along with six others with serious injuries,” said militia leader Babakura Kolo, who helped the survivors.

“It is no doubt the handiwork of Boko Haram who operate in the area and frequently attack farmers.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 29, 2020November 29, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Boko Haram, Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria