Baga is a town in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad, and lying northeast of the town of Kukawa. It is located within the Kukawa...
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The 2015 Baga massacre was a series of mass killings carried out by the Boko Haram terrorist group in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs...
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The Baga massacre began on 16 April 2013 in the village of Baga, Nigeria, in Borno State, when as many as 200 civilians were killed, hundreds wounded,...
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January 3 – 7: Boko Haram perpetrates a massacre of over 2,000 people in Baga, Nigeria, and allies itself with ISIL. April 2: Al-Shabaab perpetrates a mass...
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northeast Nigeria and captured the military base in Baga. January 8 - Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga. Bodies lay strewn on Baga's streets...
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nineteenth Eurozone country. January 3–7 – A series of massacres in Baga, Nigeria and surrounding villages by Boko Haram kills more than 2,000 people...
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Multinational Joint Task Force (category Counterterrorism in Nigeria)
previous commander of the force. In January 2015 the MNJTF headquarters in Baga, Nigeria, was overrun by militants of Boko Haram, who then proceeded to massacre...
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Boko Haram (category 2002 establishments in Nigeria)
Monguno, the army expelled the militants from Baga on 21 February. The Baga massacre was one of the Nigerian Army's biggest defeats in terms of loss of equipment...
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Lake Chad (category Lakes of Nigeria)
an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon in western and central Africa respectively,...
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Boko Haram insurgency (redirect from Nigeria bombings)
dozens of civilians were killed during a battle in Baga, Borno, between Boko Haram and the Nigerian Army. On 6 July, Boko Haram massacred 42 students in...
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Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution...
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the vicinity of the town of Baga in Nigeria's Borno State: 2013 Baga massacre, in which 35–200+ people were killed 2015 Baga massacre, in which 150–2,200+...
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refugee camp for Nigerians and Chadians who fled Boko Haram. Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 41 people on 10 October 2015. "Lake Chad's Baga Sola town hit...
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Cross Kauwa (category North East Nigeria geography stubs)
Kukawa Local Government Area. The town is located along a road that runs from Baga to the east (formerly at the shore of Lake Chad) and to Kukawa to the west...
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Monguno (category North East Nigeria geography stubs)
In early January 2015, residents fled Monguno and the village of Doron-Baga for the internally displaced persons camps in Maiduguri, following the capture...
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several towns in northeast Nigeria and captured the military base in Baga. 9 January – Refugees fled Borno following the Baga massacre. 7,300 fled to neighbouring...
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Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping (redirect from 2014 Nigeria schoolgirls abduction)
villages of Doron Baga and Izghe. That same month, 59 boys were killed in the Federal Government College attack in northeastern Nigeria. In March, the group...
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List of villages in Borno State (redirect from Lassa, Nigeria)
This is a list of villages and settlements in Borno State, Nigeria organised by local government area (LGA) and district/area (with postal codes also...
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Enitan Ransome-Kuti (category Nigerian Army officers)
Nigerian Army by a court martial and sentenced to six-months imprisonment after he was found guilty for "cowardice" and "mutiny" following the Baga attacks...
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Kukawa (category North East Nigeria geography stubs)
traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria. Other towns in the Kukawa Local Government Area include Cross Kauwa and Baga. The weather is dry, with brief...
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Maiduguri (redirect from Maiduguri, Nigeria)
/maɪˈduːɡʊri/ is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria, on the continent of Africa. The city sits along the seasonal Ngadda River...
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Collins Nweke (category Nigerian emigrants to Belgium)
Nweke had demanded the inclusion of victims of terrorist attack in Baga, Nigeria in the one-minute silence slated to take place for the victims of the...
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Eromo Egbejule (category English-language writers from Nigeria)
TheGuardian.com. 27 September 2016. "The massacre Nigeria forgot: a year after Boko Haram's attack on Baga | Nigeria | The Guardian". TheGuardian.com. 9 January...
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Goodluck Jonathan (category Peoples Democratic Party presidents of Nigeria)
Jonathan GCFR GCON (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential...
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Babagana Zulum (category Use Nigerian English from March 2023)
Best Governors In Nigeria". m.scooper.news. Retrieved 28 May 2020. "BREAKING: Boko Haram Attacks Convoy Of Borno Governor, Zulum, In Baga". Sahara Reporters...
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attacks on two churches in Nigeria - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 15 February 2015. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help) "Baga Massacre: Crimes against...
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2015 in the town of Baga Sola, Chad, a small fishing community on Lake Chad. The attack was allegedly perpetrated by the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist...
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The Third Republic was the planned republican government of Nigeria in 1992 which was to be governed by the Third Republican constitution. In the Third...
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Abu Musab al-Barnawi (category Nigerian Muslims)
Abu Musab al-Barnawi, born Habib Yusuf, is a Nigerian Islamic militant who served as the leader of the Islamic State's branch in West Africa (ISWAP) between...
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by scholars: the Middle Persian title bag (also baγ or βaγ, Old Iranian baga; cf. Sanskrit भग / bhaga) meaning "lord" and "master". Peter Golden derives...
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