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    Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah...
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    The Boko Haram insurgency began in July 2009, when the militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government...
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  • founded the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in 2002. He was its leader until he was killed during the 2009 Boko Haram uprising. Born in Girgi village,...
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    The 2009 Boko Haram uprising was a conflict between Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, and Nigerian security forces. Violence across several states...
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  • of the Boko Haram insurgency is the chronology of the Boko Haram insurgency, an ongoing armed conflict between Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram (including...
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    chopping downing trees for fuel, human agricultural penetration and the Boko Haram jihadist group's activities since 2013 have reduced their numbers since...
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    against Boko Haram.[citation needed] On 4 February 2015, the Chad Army killed over 200 Boko Haram militants.[citation needed] Soon afterwards, Boko Haram launched...
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    The exact origin of Ansaru is unclear, but it had already existed as Boko Haram faction before officially announcing its foundation as separate group...
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    Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping (category Boko Haram kidnappings)
    aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno...
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    city that are known to be strongholds of Boko Haram are under permanent curfew. On 18 June 2013, Boko Haram militants attacked a school as students were...
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    Boko Haram in Nigeria's northeast and northwest began in 2009 in concurrence with the conflicts in the region. Abductions by Islamist terrorist Boko Haram...
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  • Boko Haram kidnapping may refer to: 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings, the kidnapping of 172–185 villagers Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, the 2014 kidnapping of...
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    the territories previously held by Boko Haram and after the capture of Sambisa Forest, Buhari announced that Boko Haram has been technically defeated. The...
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    originated as a faction of Boko Haram but became officially independent in 2012. Despite this, Ansaru and other Boko Haram factions continued to work...
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    Quasi-state-level jihadist groups, including Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have captured and enslaved women and children, often...
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  • Abubakar Shekau (category Boko Haram members)
    monotheism"; 1974 – 19 May 2021) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from...
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    rebels overran Mali in 2012, a concurrent insurgency in Nigeria, led by Boko Haram, began to spread to nearby countries. By 2015, the Mali war had spread...
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    with their NINs before December 1, 2020. Due to this, on 13 Feb 2020, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau openly threatened Pantami and condemned the new...
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  • Abu Umaimata (category Boko Haram members)
    Abu Umaimata is a Nigerian militant who is the current leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group involved in an insurgency against Nigeria and other...
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    back to 1953. Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. Since...
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    Sunnah (or Izala) movement, and members of Boko Haram might all identify as Sunni, but the Izala and Boko Haram movements have had strong anti-Sufi components...
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  • unemployment rates, and poverty, the Boko Haram group was able to emerge within Nigeria as political protests. Boko Haram is a violent social group that arose...
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  • Abu Musab al-Barnawi (category Boko Haram members)
    Before pledging allegiance to IS, al-Barnawi was the spokesperson for Boko Haram. Multiple sources reported that al-Barnawi was killed in 2021, but later...
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    Damaturu (section Boko Haram)
    command of Colonel Thomas Morland. Damaturu has been attacked many times by Boko Haram jihadist insurgents in their violent campaign to establish a caliphate...
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    The Boko Haram-affected states agreed in February 2015 to establish an 8,700-strong Multinational Joint Task Force to jointly fight Boko Haram. By October...
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  • Islamic State – West Africa Province (category Boko Haram insurgency)
    Chad, Niger and Turkey. It is an offshoot of Boko Haram with which it has a violent rivalry; Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in battle...
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  • Battle of Sambisa Forest (2021) (category Boko Haram suicide bombings)
    serving as the main base of Boko Haram, a rival jihadist rebel group. Following heavy fighting, ISWAP overran the Boko Haram troops, cornering their leader...
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  • al-sunnah li-da'wa wa al-jihād), better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram (pronounced [bōːkòː hàrâm], "Western education is sinful"), is a jihadist militant...
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    alive' in Boko Haram video". BBC News Africa. 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016. "Boko Haram Attack Kills...
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    2021 and 2.4% in 2022. On 22 November 2022, an attack was launched by Boko Haram in the village of Ngouboua, killing at least 10 soldiers of the Chad National...
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