Late on Tuesday, suicide bombers invaded two mosques in the state of Yobe in Nigeria, killing six people and injuring many others, witnesses said. The attack has been blamed on Boko Haram, although the terrorist group has not yet claimed responsibility for it. The first explosion hit an open air Shi’ite mosque in the Dogo Tebo region in the town …
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More than 6,000 people in the past week have fled the northeast Nigerian state of Borno due to Boko Haram violence, the nation’s main relief agency said. On Wednesday, The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said that it had registered exactly 6,227 internally displaced people (IDP) in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, the past week. “Most of them came in …
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Hundreds of villagers from four villages in northeast Nigeria are feared dead in suspected Boko Haram attacks, in the latest increase in violence that is claiming the lives of an increasing number of civilians. According to local sources, Tuesday’s death toll due to attacks in Gwozo district in the state of Borno could be as high as 500; however, the …
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In 2009, Nigerian police forces fighting Boko Haram in the northern city of Maiduguri lost about 30 officers in a violent firefight. The next day, they executed many of the men they had rounded up and detained as suspected Boko Haram fighters. The retaliatory killings often happened right outside police headquarters in full view of the public. Bodies piled up …
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On Friday, a Muslim leader in Nigeria announced that he would host a nation-wide day of prayer in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja as a part of the effort to overcome Boko Haram’s lethal insurgency. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, The Sultan of Sokoto, invited all prominent Nigerian Muslim leaders to pray with him in the National Mosque in Abuja on Sunday. …
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