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Nigeria: Boko Haram Fighters Kill Soldiers, Abduct Hundreds in Borno
Daily Trust, 20 August 2020
Boko Haram fighters loyal to the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Tuesday killed at least eight soldiers and injured three others in an ambush in Kukawa town in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Militants Take Hundreds Hostage Near Lake Chad
DW, 19 August 2020
Islamists from a Boko Haram splinter group have taken large numbers of people captive in a northeastern Nigerian town. Many of the victims had just returned to the town after… Read more »
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Nigeria: Boko Haram Abducts 100 in Borno Community
This Day, 19 August 2020
Boko Haram insurgents have overrun Kukawa, a town in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, abducting over 100 persons, security sources have revealed. Read more »
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Nigeria: ACF Urges Govt to Arrest Worsening Insecurity in Northern States
This Day, 20 August 2020
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday urged the federal government and states in the northern region to take all measures to end the wave of terrorism, banditry and… Read more »
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Nigeria: Military Airstrikes Destroy Iswap 'Logistic Facilities' in Borno - DHQ
Premium Times, 19 August 2020
The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has neutralised some commanders and fighters of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in two separate airstrikes on their… Read more »
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Chad: 20 Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists, Commanders Killed in Lake Chad - NAF
Vanguard, 19 August 2020
Following Air Strikes by fighter aircraft of the Nigerian Airforce on terrorists and their camps in the Lake Chad region, more than 20 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists were on Monday… Read more »
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Nigeria: MNJTF Receives 106 Surrendered Boko Haram Escapees
Leadership, 19 August 2020
Troops of the Multinational Joint Taskforce (MNJTF) in N'Djamena, Chad have received 106 civilians who escaped from the Boko Haram terrorists and surrendered. Read more »
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Nigeria: Two Soldiers, Boko Haram Terrorists Killed As Troops Repel Attack On Magumeri
Premium Times, 19 August 2020
Security sources have confirmed the death of two soldiers, a nursing mother and many Boko Haram insurgents after troops fought fiercely to repel a major attack on Magumeri, a local… Read more »
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Nigeria: Of Boko Haram, Bandits and Others
Vanguard, 19 August 2020
Nothing in this world is new, all you are seeing today are based on foundations that people have laid in the past. All you need to do is to go in search of what has happened in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Terrorism - the Jagged Edges of Govt's Deradicalisation Programme
This Day, 3 August 2020
Kingsley Nwezeh looks at government's policy on repentant terrorists in the North-east tagged "Operation Safe Coridor" and the national outrage over the neglect of the actual… Read more »
Boko Haram Splinter Group Abducts Over 100 in Lake Chad Region
Militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter group of Boko Haram, have abducted people living in Kukawa in the Lake Chad region. Those taken had just returned to their homes after spending nearly two years in displacement camps in Maiduguri in Nigeria, following a bloody attack in November 2018.
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The United States has raised the alarm that the Al-Qaeda and ISIS insurgent groups have started penetrating the northwestern part of Nigeria and looking to expand further south. ... Read more »
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The UN Refugee Agency has strongly condemned an attack on a site hosting 800 internally displaced people near the village of Nguetchewe in northern Cameroon. At least 18 people ... Read more »
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The humanitarian aid workers were kidnapped, allegedly by Boko Haram a month ago in Borno State, and executed this week. President Muhammadu Buhari, sympathising with the families, ... Read more »
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Communities affected by violent extremism are frequently considered to have risk factors linked to socio-economic deprivation, bad governance and religious ... Read more »
