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    (20,000 sq mi) in January 2015, but did not capture the state capital, Maiduguri, where the group was originally based. On 7 March 2015, Boko Haram's leader...
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  • the attacks. Benisheik, is located between the cities of Damaturu and Maiduguri in Borno State. The attack began on 18 September. The rebels arrived in...
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    perhaps the largest massacre by Boko Haram. On 10 January, 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a market in Maiduguri. The city is at the heart...
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    original on July 19, 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015. "Four fatal blasts in Maiduguri". news24. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015. "Ankara explosions...
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    16 people at a bus station. In February 2020, a massacre occurred in Auno on the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway. Insurgents killed 30 commuters, burned vehicles...
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  • November – November 2014 Maiduguri bombings – Over 45 people are killed by two suicide bombers in Maiduguri. 27 November – Damasak massacre – Around 50 people...
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  • have had a photographic memory. In 1990 he moved to the Mafoni area in Maiduguri and studied under a traditional cleric before entering the Borno College...
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  • Local Government Area of the same name about 25 km to the southeast of Maiduguri, situated on the north bank of the Ngadda River. The population of the...
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    northern leaders disapproved of contact with Israel and banned Israelis from Maiduguri and Sokoto. Israel did not begin arms sales to Nigeria until after Aguyi-Ironsi...
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    Army's 1st Division during the Nigerian Civil War. He was murdered in his Maiduguri home on 2 November 2012 by suspected Boko Haram militants. The Kharkiv...
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    Certificate of Occupancy was issued for a church building within the Diocese of Maiduguri was in 1979. Christian students are denied Christian religious curricula...
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  • others kidnapped. The lorry was part of a convoy which was travelling from Maiduguri to an ISIL camp. Boko Haram kills almost 100 soldiers in seven-hour attack...
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    also massacring around two hundred Igbo soldiers. General Yakubu Gowon took power. While this coup was taking place, Obasanjo was in Maiduguri. Hearing...
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    manslaughter. This contrasts with other cities that are also Islamic, such as Maiduguri and Kaduna, which have worrying statistics on homicides. There is some...
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    History of Nigeria (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Richard Trillo (16 June 2008). "Nigeria Part 3:14.5 the north and northeast Maiduguri". The Rough Guide to West Africa. Rough Guides. pp. Unnumbered. ISBN 978-1-4053-8070-6...
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    University of Maiduguri and a former director of a special training course for the students of Arabic studies at the University of Maiduguri in Gamboru....
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  • February 2015. "Boko Haram pledges allegiance to IS after carnage in Maiduguri". AFP. Retrieved 7 March 2015. "3 suicide bombings target Shiite rebel...
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  • Retrieved 27 January 2016. "At least 65 people killed in attack in Nigeria's Maiduguri". Reuters. 31 January 2016. "Survivor claims Boko Haram burned kids alive...
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    2016. "Boko Haram: 26 killed, 85 injured as 14 suicide bombers attack Maiduguri" Archived August 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved January 4...
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    August 1914 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    colonial garrison in Mora, surprised a British column of 50 men from Maiduguri, Nigeria with a crack force of 30 troops, driving them away from the fort...
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  • visited Ouallam, a town where refugees from Mali live. 3–4 May  Nigeria Maiduguri Abuja Met with President Muhammadu Buhari. 9–10 May  Moldova Chișinău...
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  • List of terrorist incidents in 2020 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Menschen sterben durch Schüsse in Hanau – DER SPIEGEL – Panorama". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2020. "Mehrere Menschen im hessischen Hanau...
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  • List of terrorist incidents in 2011 (category Massacres in 2011)
    Car bombings, shootings, suicide bombings 100–150 100–500 Damaturu and Maiduguri, Nigeria 2011 Damaturu attacks Series of coordinated assaults Boko Haram...
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    practice for Times Square massacre". 25 March 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017. "Multiple bomb blasts rock Nigeria's Maiduguri". Archived from the original...
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  • controls all roads to the strategically important, government-held city of Maiduguri. ISWAP initially continued to pressure the remaining Boko Haram loyalists...
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    their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. 2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial...
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    cathedral in Cairo. 3 people were killed in two suicide bombing attack in Maiduguri. Two car bombing kills at least 8 people in Fallujah. The CTS forces mentioned...
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  • humanitarian crisis and a wave of fleeing refugees. 13 May: The clashes, in Maiduguri, between Boko Haram fighters and the Nigerian army resulted in the death...
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