Nigeria: Boko Haram's Renewed Guerilla Warfare That Shook Maiduguri

14 March 2015
analysis

Maiduguri — Survivors in the ranks of the highly depleted Boko Haram sect contrived a renewed onslaught on three densely populated commercial outlets in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital last Saturday and left more than 100 people dead and many others with permanent deformities.

The simultaneous suicide attacks, said to have been carried out by women at the famous Baga Fish Market, the highly concentrated Monday Market and at the Borno Express Terminus on March 7, 2015 put an unprecedented pressure on the security architecture of Maiduguri, which is now home to over three million people.

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