Background Information

 
“Boko Haram grew out of a group of radical Islamist youth who worshipped at the Al- Haji Muhammadu Ndimi Mosque in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, in the 1990s. Its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, began as a preacher and leader in the youth wing, Shababul Islam (Islamic Youth Vanguard), of Ahl-Sunnah, a Salafi group. […] Most accounts date the beginning of Boko Haram – its formal Arabic name is Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad) – to 2002, when it began to attract official attention.” (ICG, 3 April 2014, p. 7)
 
“Ab 2003 militarisierte sich die Gruppe, rekrutierte Mitglieder und liefert sich seitdem Gefechte mit den nigerianischen Sicherheitskräften. Zur Eskalation der Gewalt führte die Tötung von mehr als 800 mutmaßlichen Boko Haram-Kämpfern im Juli 2009, die von den nigerianischen Sicherheitskräften zum Teil auf offener Straße hingerichtet wurden. Auch Mohammed Yusuf wurde gefangen genommen und in der Haft getötet. Unter ihrem neuen Führer Abubakar Shekau wurden die Angriffe häufiger und brutaler.“ (AI, August 2014).
 
“Initially referred to as the Yusufiyya or Nigerian Taliban and later as Boko Haram, it also rejected all secular authority.” (ICG, 3 April 2014, p. 9)
 
“[…] the group is more popularly known as Boko Haram (often translated as ‘Western education is forbidden’), a nickname given by local Hausa-speaking communities to describe the group’s view that Western education and culture have been corrupting influences that are haram (‘forbidden’) under its conservative interpretation of Islam.“ (CRS, 29 July 2014, p.1)
 
 

Factions

 
“Ansaru, formally Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan (loosely translated as ‘Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa’), announced its existence on 1 January 2012, though it has been around much longer. It distanced itself from the rest of Boko Haram because it disapproved of its indiscriminate killings and Shekau’s lack of tact. At its core are sect members who, after the 2009 crackdown, fled to Somalia and Mali, where they joined and trained with Al-Shabaab and AQIM respectively.” (ICG, 3 April 2014, p. 26)
 
“Since Boko Haram kidnapped more 250 girls from Chibok in Borno State on April 14, new signs have emerged that Ansaru – whose leaders were Nigerian members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – has reintegrated with Boko Haram and its former operatives are carrying out attacks in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region (for Ansaru, see Terrorism Monitor, January 10, 2013). In addition, a new faction connected to Boko Haram deployed a female suicide bomber to attack a fuel tanker at Apapa port in Lagos on June 25 (Sahara Reporters, June 26).” (Jamestown Foundation, 25 July 2014)
 
 

Aims and activities of Boko Haram

“Importantly, it has concrete links with not only al-Qaeda, but a number of radical African Muslim jihadi groups as well. […] Boko Haram’s principal goal is to create a strict Islamic state in the north that it believes would address the ills of society, including corruption and bad governance. The sect’s core beliefs are strict adherence to the Quran and the Hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammed), and their interpretation as sanctioned by Ibn Taymiyyah (the preferred scholar of Mohammed Yusuf, the sect’s leader).” (ICG, 3 April 2014, p. 9)
 
“The actions of Boko Haram have grown increasingly monstrous. The group has targeted some people simply because of their religion or professional occupation, and indiscriminately killed and maimed many others. They have burned down houses, churches, clinics and schools. They have murdered children in their beds. Some of its members are reported to have abducted and raped women and girls.” (OHCHR, 14 March 2014)
 
“Die Islamisten greifen vor allem Polizeistationen und Sicherheitskräfte an und ermorden christliche und muslimische Geistliche, die sich ihnen entgegenstellen. Zunehmend werden auch Zivilisten Opfer von Anschlägen. Märkte, Busstationen, christliche Kirchen, Schulen, Zeitungsredaktionen oder Bars werden überfallen.“ (AI, August 2014).
 
“As a result of the attack in Lagos, there are now three active zones of operation for Boko Haram: The border region between Borno State and northern Cameroon, where Boko Haram maintains a safe haven to train militants, hold hostages-for-ransom and launch attacks; The Middle Belt, where Boko Haram is carrying out nearly weekly bombings of churches, malls and government facilities; and  Southern Nigeria, where a network of militants is emerging that likely includes Muslims from southern Nigerian ethnic groups.” (Jamestown Foundation, 25 July 2014)
 
 

Main events in the past

 
“Its deadliest attacks include a coordinated series of bombings in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, that killed more than 180 people in January 2012; an attack on the village of Benisheikh in September 2013 that killed more than 160 civilians; and an assault on another northeastern village, Gamboro, that may have killed as many as 300 people in early May 2014.” (CRS, 29 July 2014, p. 4)
 
“Attacks since the beginning of 2014 by Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group, in over 40 villages in northeastern Nigeria, have displaced thousands of people. People forced to flee their homes are dispersed throughout Nigeria and in neighboring countries, where they face serious problems in accessing food, water, shelter, and other basic rights.” (HRW, 14 March 2014)
 
 
 

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

 
For a chronology from January 2012 to April 2013, see the following archived version of this featured topic: www.ecoi.net/en/document/249669.
For a chronology from January 2013 to August 2014, see the following archived version of this featured topic: www.ecoi.net/en/document/288191.
The following chronology contains events in reverse chronological order starting in April 2014:
 
  
AUGUST 2015
 
“Nigerian villagers on Wednesday described the carnage unleashed by a huge blast at a market in jihadist group Boko Haram's northeastern heartland as the death toll rose to 50. The blast - caused by explosives concealed in a crop-spraying backpack - ripped through the weekly market in the village of Sabon Gari, around 135 kilometres (85 miles) south of Borno state capital Maiduguri, during peak trading on Tuesday. […] No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but witnesses said the blast bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has previously targeted crowded bus stations, markets, mosques and churches during its bloody six-year insurgency.” (AFP, 12 August 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists shot dead four people and abducted five others in an ambush on a highway in northeastern Nigeria, local vigilantes said on Monday. Several gunmen opened fire on a bus and a car near Nwajurko village in Borno State on Sunday, killing four passengers and seizing survivors who tried to flee, according to witnesses.” (AFP, 10 August 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists shot dead at least nine people and set homes on fire in a raid on two villages in conflict-hit northeastern Nigeria, fleeing residents told AFP on Thursday. Villagers described how dozens of gunmen on motorbikes stormed Tadagara and Dunbulwa villages, 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Yobe state capital Damaturu, from Wednesday night through to the following morning.” (AFP, 6 August 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists shot dead nine fishermen in a village near the shores of Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, a leading fisherman and a survivor said on Wednesday. The men were heading towards the fishing town of Baga on Tuesday when they were stopped by the militants, dragged out of their van and gunned down, said Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fishermen's union in Borno State. ‘From the information I got from survivors of the attack, nine of my members were killed by Boko Haram gunmen on their way to Baga from Monguno. They were ambushed at Maduwari village,’ he told AFP.” (AFP, 5 August 2015)
 
“The Nigerian military says it has rescued 178 people from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northern Borno state. In a statement released on Sunday, it said that 101 of those freed were children and a further 67 were women.” (BBC, 3 August 2015)
 
“Boko Haram fighters killed 13 people in an attack on Malari village in northeast Nigeria's restive Borno state early Sunday, witnesses said.” (AFP, 2 August 2015)
 
JULY 2015
 
“At least 10 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamist gunmen raided a village in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state in a revenge attack against local vigilantes, an official said Friday. Some 32 gunmen on motorcycles raided the village of Kukuwa-Gari at around 10:30 pm (2130 GMT) on Wednesday, killing 10 people including two women, said Baba Nuhu, a member of the local government council.” (AFP, 31 July 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists slit the throats of 10 fishermen in villages near Baga on the shores of the Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, a leading fisherman and a resident said Thursday.” (AFP, 30 July 2015)
 
“Nigeria's army said Tuesday it had liberated 30 hostages held by Boko Haram, including 21 children and seven women, amid ongoing offensives against the extremists in the country's northeast. Army officials said the operation to free the captives took place in the town of Dikwa in Borno State, which had fallen to Boko Haram twice since April, and was recaptured by Nigerian troops last week.” (AFP, 28 July 2015)
 
“A girl aged about 10 has carried out a suicide bombing in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 16 people, police say.  The attack took place near a crowded market in the city of Damaturu in Yobe state. About 50 people were wounded. No group has said it was behind the attack but Islamists Boko Haram have been blamed for similar bombings in recent months.” (BBC, 26 July 2015)
 
“At least 25 people were killed in new suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria, with many villagers also forced to flee their homes, residents said Saturday. ‘The terrorists stormed Maikadiri around 9:00 am (0800 GMT Friday) and opened fire on hapless citizens,’ resident Simon Templer said. […] Two other villages close to Maikadiri in southern Borno state were also attacked, said Maina Ularamu, chief of the Madagali district.” (AFP, 25 July 2015)
 
“Gunmen killed eight people in a raid on a village in northeastern Nigeria, a local resident and a vigilante said Thursday, in the latest violence blamed on Boko Haram. The attack in Borno state Wednesday was unleashed the same day as twin suicide bombings in Cameroon and a series of blasts at two bus stations in Nigeria that left at least 50 dead. ‘The gunmen we believe to be from Boko Haram came into our village around 9 pm yesterday (Wednesday) and shot dead eight people,’ said Umar Goni, a resident of Pompomari village.” (AFP, 23 July 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram attacks left more than 50 people dead on Wednesday, after Nigeria's president warned the United States that its policy was hitting the fight against Boko Haram. Twin suicide attacks in Maroua, northern Cameroon, killed at least 11, while some 42 lost their lives in a series of blasts at two bus stations in Gombe, northeast Nigeria.” (AFP, 22 July 2015a)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have raided the village of Nigeria's army chief in northeast Borno state, killing two residents and setting fire to several homes, residents said Tuesday. Dozens of Boko Haram fighters stormed Buratai, the native village of chief of army staff Major General ‎Tukur Yusuf Buratai, ‎around 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Monday night, shooting indiscriminately and forcing residents to flee into the bush.” (AFP, 22 July 2015b)
 
“Six people were killed in a bomb blast as police searched vehicles at a checkpoint outside the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu on Monday, police and a witness said. ‘Eight people including two bombers were killed in the explosion. Two policemen were among the victims,’ Yobe state police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin told AFP.” (AFP, 20 July 2015)
 
“At least 64 people died and an estimated 70 were injured in an attack on an open air prayer ground in Yobe State. At least 64 people died and an estimated 70 were injured when two female suicide bombers targeted an open air prayer ground in the capital of Yobe State in north east Nigeria, as worshippers gathered to mark the end of the Ramadan fast.” (CSW, 17 July 2015)
 
“Two explosions at a market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Gombe have killed at least 49 people and injured dozens of others, officials have said.” (BBC, 17 July 2015)
 
“Three girls staged suicide bombings in the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday, killing at least 13 people as residents prepared for the Eid festival at the end of Ramadan, police said.” (AFP, 17 July 2015)
 
“At least 30 people were killed in three attacks by Islamists in northeastern Nigeria, local officials and inhabitants said Wednesday.  The three assaults were carried out simultaneously Tuesday. In the deadliest, over 20 were killed outside Ngamdu, a local legislator, Mohammed Sando, told AFP.” (AFP, 15 July 2015)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen killed dozens of people in four villages in northeast Nigeria, slitting some residents' throats and opening fire on others, one resident and the police said on Tuesday. ‘Boko Haram gunmen came into our villages at night, killing 43 people,’ said Sheriff Kulo, from Kilwa village near Monguno, who escaped to the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. […] ‘They then proceeded to Gwollam, Misala and Magaram, where they did the same thing. In all they killed 43.’” (AFP, 14 July 2015)
 
“Four people killed were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber hit a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, civilian vigilantes told AFP.  The blast happened at about 12:10 pm (1110 GMT) at the Jimtilo checkpoint, as passengers arriving in Maiduguri were being screened, they said.” (AFP, 13 July 2015)
 
“Eleven people were killed in a Boko Haram raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, residents and a civilian vigilante assisting the military against the Islamists told AFP. ‘We had just finished our evening prayers when Boko Haram gunmen invaded our village,’ said resident Kyari Sanda from Ngamdu, 100 kilometres (63 miles) south of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.” (AFP, 11 July 2015)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen shot dead eight people in Nigeria's remote northeast as they returned to inspect their damaged homes in an abandoned town, refugees said on Friday.  Some residents who had fled Gamboru across the border into northern Cameroon went back to the frontier town on Friday morning after hearing a rumour that Chadian and Cameroonian troops were providing security.” (AFP, 10 July 2015)
 
“A female suicide bomber on Tuesday blew herself up near a military checkpoint in restive Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, killing four people, witnesses said.” (AFP, 7 July 2015)
 
“A bomb attack has killed at least 25 people and wounded 32 others in northern Nigeria's Zaria city, the state governor has said.” (BBC, 7 July 2015)
 
“Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say. A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night. No group has said it carried out the attack, but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate.” (BBC, 6 July 2015)
 
“A suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday inside a church in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum, killing five worshippers in the latest in a new series of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, a police officer and witness told AFP. The attacker entered the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the Jigawa area on the outskirts of Potiskum and detonated his explosives.” (AFP, 5 July 2015)
 
“At least 29 people were killed in an Islamist attack on a village in northeast Nigeria's restive Borno state on Friday, a witness said. Armed men arrived at the village of Mussa and ‘killed everyone on sight,’ Sunday Wabba, a local youth association official, told AFP.” (AFP, 3 July 2015a)
 
“A young female suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a witness and a vigilante aiding the military against Boko Haram said Friday. ‘The bomber was a girl aged around 15 who was seen around the mosque when worshippers were preparing for the afternoon prayers,’ vigilante Danlami Ajaokuta said of Thursday's attack in Malari village, adding 12 had died and seven were injured.” (AFP, 3 July 2015b)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants killed nearly 150 people in northeastern Nigerian villages, mowing down men and children while they prayed in mosques and shooting women preparing food at home, witnesses said Thursday. Dozens of militants stormed three remote villages in the flashpoint Borno state on Wednesday evening, slaughtering residents and setting houses ablaze in the bloodiest day of attacks by the extremist group since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in May. Gunmen killed at least 97 people in Kukawa, the worst-affected village, a local who gave his name as Kolo and who said he had counted the bodies told AFP. […] In two other villages near the town of Monguno, meanwhile, gunmen killed 48 people and injured 11 others, local lawmaker Mohammed Tahir and witnesses told AFP.” (AFP, 2 July 2015)
 
“A man and a woman apparently trying to target a hospital in northeast Nigeria were killed Wednesday when explosives strapped to their bodies blew up, witnesses said. The explosions took place in the village of Molai not far from the restive city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was on a surprise visit. According to witness Babayo Ismail, one of the pair was a woman aged around 18 who was trying to find her way into Molai General Hospital.” (AFP, 1 July 2015)
 
JUNE 2015
 
“At least five people have been killed and 10 wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a leprosy hospital on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, emergency services said Sunday. […] There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but Nigeria's Borno state, where the attack took place, has been the hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency which has left at least 15,000 people dead. […] Danlami Ajaokuta, a civilian vigilante fighting Boko Haram, confirmed the hospital explosion and added that there had been a failed suicide attack by two women in Jakarna village, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Maiduguri on Saturday afternoon.” (AFP, 28 June 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead at least 42 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, with no let-up in sight to the Islamist group's targeting of civilians.  The attacks in the remote villages of Debiro Hawul and Debiro Biu in Borno state on Monday and Tuesday came before at least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in neighbouring Yobe.” (AFP, 24 June 2015a)
 
“A girl thought to be aged just 12 detonated explosives she was carrying at a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, killing 10 people and injuring dozens, a relative of one of the injured told AFP. The blast bore all the hallmarks of Boko Haram Islamists, who have used young women and girls in the past as human bombs and regularly attacked ‘soft’ civilian targets such as markets. The explosion happened at around 11:00 am (1000 GMT) at the weekly market in Wagir, in the Gujba district south of the Yobe state capital Damaturu.” (AFP, 24 June 2015b)
 
“At least 20 people have been killed after female suicide bombers attacked a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, eyewitnesses have told the BBC. […] Islamist militant group Boko Haram has not commented on the attack. The group will be the key suspect, as it is known for carrying out suicide bomb attacks in the city.” (BBC, 22 June 2015)
 
“Chad said Thursday its warplanes bombed Boko Haram positions in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in the capital this week blamed on the jihadists.” (AFP, 18 June 2015)
 
“Ten people were killed in twin suicide bombings in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, a police source and a civilian vigilante assisting the military against Boko Haram told AFP on Monday. Eight vigilantes were killed in the first blast in the Igwanda area of the city at about 12:15 pm (1115 GMT) while two died in the second outside a tavern and brothel in the Dorawa area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state, has been hit repeatedly by Boko Haram in its six-year insurgency, including by suicide bombers.” (AFP, 15 June 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 37 people in raids on five villages around Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a military source and a local village defence group said on Friday. The Islamist militants, who arrived on motorcycles and in four-wheel drive vehicles, fired into houses and shot fleeing locals during Wednesday evening and the early hours of Thursday, the military source said.” (AlertNet, 12 June 2015)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in northeast Nigeria, residents told AFP Thursday, the latest in an upsurge of attacks by the Islamist militants. Dozens of rebels on motorcycles stormed Matangale, Buraltima and Dirmanti in restive Borno state on Tuesday, opening fire on villagers before looting and burning homes, fleeing residents said.” (AFP, 11 June 2015)
 
“Fifteen people were killed when Boko Haram attacked a remote village in northeast Nigeria, opening fire and burning homes to the ground, three residents told AFP on Tuesday. The attack happened at about 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Monday in Huyum, in the Askira-Uba district of Borno state which locals say has been hit repeatedly in recent weeks by the Islamist militants.” (AFP, 9 June 2015)
 
“A female suicide bomber killed two people and injured four others in northeast Nigeria, while two people were injured when a bomb exploded near a military checkpoint, police said on Sunday. ‘A female suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device strapped to her body along the Baga-Monguno highway, killing herself and two others on Saturday,’ said Borno state police commissioner Aderemi Opadokun.” (AFP, 7 June 2015)
 
“Two blasts rocked northeast Nigeria on Thursday, killing at least six, after new President Muhammadu Buhari urged closer regional cooperation to defeat Boko Haram. The first explosion happened in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, which has been hit by a spate of bombings in recent days, when a truck carrying firewood rammed into a checkpoint outside a military barracks. The second hit a busy market in Yola, the capital of neighbouring Adamawa state. At least four soldiers were killed in the first explosion, which one resident called a ‘suicide attack’, while the second left two dead and some 30 others injured, police and locals said.” (AFP, 4 June 2015(a))
 
“The death toll from a blast in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri has risen to 18, a civilian vigilante assisting the military against Boko Haram told AFP on Thursday. 'We retrieved 18 dead bodies from the scene and many people with injuries,’ Danlami Ajaokuta said of the explosion on the city's Baga Road, which happened at about 5:30 pm (1630 GMT) on Wednesday.” (AFP, 4 June 2015(b)) “At least six people were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a civilian vigilante assisting the military against Boko Haram and a witness told AFP. ‘We have so far recovered six dead bodies. We are still working at the scene, so the casualties may rise,’ said Danlami Ajaokuta of the blast on the Baga Road, which happened at 5:30 pm (1630 GMT).” (AFP, 3 June 2015)
 
“Thirteen people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack at a busy cattle market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the Red Cross and civilian vigilantes battling Boko Haram said. The blast in the Borno state capital happened at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) as traders were wrapping up business for the day, Shettima Bulama said in an account backed up by another local vigilante. […] There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attack but it bore the hallmarks of the group and Bulama said the victims were ‘carefully targeted’.” (AFP, 2 June 2015)
 
MAY 2015
 
“Boko Haram Islamists raided two towns in northeastern Nigeria, torching public buildings and looting food and fuel stores, residents and a police officer told AFP on Sunday. Islamist gunmen in pick-up trucks and on motorcycles stormed the towns of Galda and Fika in Yobe state late Saturday, firing wildly and forcing residents indoors.‎” (AFP, 31 May 2015)
 
“A suicide bomber has killed at least 16 people at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, police say. Dozens more were wounded in the attack. It follows an overnight assault on the north-eastern city by Boko Haram, in which at least 13 people were killed before troops were able to push back the militants' advance.” (BBC, 30 May 2015)
 
“Boko Haram fighters hacked to death 10 people in remote northeast Nigeria, a local government official said on Monday, as the military claimed to have thwarted a fresh attack. The attack happened early on Friday in the village of Pambula-Kwamda, the local government chairman of Madagali in the north of Adamawa state told AFP.” (AFP, 25 May 2015)
 
“A weekend attack by Boko Haram in the northeast Nigerian town of Gubio left 37 people dead, with more than 400 buildings destroyed by fire, local vigilantes said Tuesday.  The civilian fighters gave the toll to Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, who visited the town to assess the devastation. ‘The terrorists killed 37 people, including two young boys,’ said Bukar Mondama, the leader of the vigilantes who briefed the governor.” (AFP, 26 May 2015)
 
“Nigeria's military on Saturday claimed the killing of scores of Boko Haram insurgents and the rescue of 20 more hostages during an operation in the notorious Sambisa forest, an Islamist stronghold.” (AFP, 23 May 2015)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen have killed three people and abducted seven women in a raid on a northeast Nigerian district previously declared safe by the military, a local official said on Tuesday. Dozens of Islamist fighters late on Saturday stormed a village in the Madagali district of Adamawa, which the defence ministry said had been cleared of insurgents in March. ‘The ‎insurgents attacked the (Sabon Gari Hyembula) village around 10:30 pm (2130 GMT) where they killed three people and kidnapped seven women,’ said Madagali local government chief Maina Ularamu.” (AFP, 19 May 2015)
 
“A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a livestock market in north-east Nigeria killing at least seven people. […] Although no-one has yet claimed responsibility, the militant group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack. The bomb went off at about 12:15 GMT in the village of Garkida in Adamawa state.” (BBC, 19 May 2015)
 
“A young girl on Saturday carried out a suicide attack at a bus station in Damaturu in northeastern Nigeria killing seven people and injuring 31, witnesses and the local hospital said. […] No claim of responsibility for the attack has been made but Islamist group Boko Haram has frequently used young girls to carry out suicide attacks.” (AFP, 16 May 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional official said early on Saturday. ‘It is sad as we have been made to understand that Marte has today completely fallen under the control of the insurgents, which to us is a very huge setback,’ said Mustapha Zannah, vice governor of the Borno state.” (AFP, 16 May 2015)
 
“At least 55 people were killed in two Boko Haram raids this week near Maiduguri, capital of restive northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, local and vigilante sources said Friday. ‘Boko Haram fighters raided Bale and Kayamla villages where they killed at least 55 people and burnt several homes after looting them before proceeding to the outskirts of Maiduguri‎ where they were crushed by troops,’ vigilante official Abacha Zinnari said. ‘They killed 30 people in Kayamla and another 25 in Bale,’ he added.” (AFP, 15 May 2015)
 
“At least three soldiers, six vigilantes and dozens of Boko Haram insurgents have been killed during clashes in the restive northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, sources said on Thursday.  The Islamist militants launched an attack on the Borno state capital on Wednesday evening but were repelled by Nigerian troops after intense fighting, residents and the army said.” (AFP, 13 May 2015)
 
“Two militants have attacked a business college in Potiskum in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe. At least six students were seriously injured by gunfire, but dozens more were hurt as they tried to escape. […] No-one so far has said they were behind the attack but the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out similar raids in the town.” (AFP, 8 May 2015)
 
“Nigerian troops have rescued 25 more women and children from Boko Haram's northeastern stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, killing a number of insurgents and destroying Islamist camps, the military said Wednesday. ‘Seven additional terrorists camps were yesterday destroyed as more terrorists also died in the ongoing onslaught to flush them out of Sambisa forest,’ the defence headquarters said in a statement.” (AFP, 6 May 2015)
 
“Nigeria's army has rescued nearly 700 hostages from Boko Haram captivity over the past week, but uncertainty remained on Saturday over the fate of the 219 girls seized from their school last year in a kidnapping that sparked outrage across the world. In the latest rescue, ‘234 women and children were rescued through the Kawuri and Konduga end of Sambisa forest on Thursday,’ the defence headquarters said in a statement late Friday. ‘They have been evacuated to join others at the place of ongoing screening,’ it said, adding that the latest batch was ‘in addition to the previous individuals earlier rescued during the ongoing operation in the area.’ Around 500 women and children have already been freed by the military from the Islamists in the past few days.” (AFP, 1 May 2015)
 
APRIL 2015
 
“Nigeria's military on Tuesday claimed the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from a notorious Boko Haram stronghold, but said there was no confirmation the hostages were those kidnapped from Chibok a year ago. ‘Troops have this afternoon captured & destroyed three camps of terrorists inside the Sambisa forest & rescued 200 girls & 93 women,’ defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said in a text message, referring to the area in northeast Borno state where the Islamists have bases.” (AFP, 28 April 2015)
 
“Hundreds of people have been found dead in the northeast Nigerian town of Damasak, apparently victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, as details emerged on Monday of fresh attacks by the militants.” (AFP, 27 April 2015)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen killed dozens of soldiers and massacred civilians in a weekend attack on an island on Lake Chad, after 21 people were shot dead in northeastern Nigeria.” (AFP, 27 April 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have forced hundreds of soldiers to flee Marte, a border town along the shores of the Lake Chad, a local official and witnesses said Friday. ‘The terrorists, numbering over 2,000, appeared from various directions on Thursday and engaged the soldiers in Kirenowa town and adjoining communities in Marte,’ said Imamu Habeeb, a local community leader. ‘They fought with soldiers over the night and the fight continued today (Friday), forcing hundreds of soldiers to flee,’ he added from Borno state capital Maiduguri.” (AFP, 25 April 2015)
 
“A botched suspected Boko Haram suicide attack targeting a group of Shiite Muslims injured three people in northeast Nigeria on Monday, witnesses told AFP. The would-be bomber detonated his explosives a few metres (yards) from an open-air mosque in the Dogo Tebo area of Potiskum shortly after afternoon prayers.” (AFP, 20 April 2015)
 
“Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists have launched a fresh attack on a northeast Nigerian village killing two residents, two weeks after they beheaded 23 people in the same village, witnesses said. The insurgents stormed Buratai village on motorbikes around 8:00pm (1900 GMT) on Thursday, killed their targets and fled, a security source said.” (AFP, 10 April 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen opened fire on villagers and torched a number of buildings in a new attack in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said Monday. Resident Ahmad Ali told AFP that roughly two dozen assailants, who were ‘obviously Boko Haram fighters’ stormed the village of Kwajaffa at dusk on Sunday and ordered residents out of their homes.” (AFP, 6 April 2015)
 
“At least four people were killed Saturday when suspected Boko Haram fighters raided a local market in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, security sources said. Scores of Boko Haram gunmen stormed Kayamla village, 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) from Maiduguri, capital of restive Borno state, and opened fire on a weekly market, killing four traders, a senior security official in Maiduguri told AFP. The attackers looted food stores and took away livestock from the market before fleeing into the bush, said the security official, ‎who asked not to be named.” (AFP, 4 April 2015)
 
“An explosion near a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe killed at least five and injured 15 others, witnesses told AFP on Thursday, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram.” (AFP, 2 April 2015)
 
MARCH 2015
 
“The Nigerian army says it has retaken the north-eastern town of Gwoza, believed to be the headquarters of militant Islamist group Boko Haram.” (BBC, 27 March 2015)
 
“Chad and Niger troops have recaptured the northeastern Nigerian town of Gachagar from Boko Haram, as part of a regional offensive to combat the Islamist insurgents, Niger's defence minister said on Thursday. The operation in Gachagar, a town near Nigeria's border with Niger, was carried out over the past few days and involved ‘air and ground bombardments’, Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said.” (AFP, 26 March 2015)
 
“Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday.” (AlertNet, 24 March 2015)
 
“About 500 children aged 11 and under are missing from a Nigerian town recaptured from militants, a former resident of Damasak has told the BBC. A trader in the north-eastern town told Reuters news agency that Boko Haram fighters took the children with them when they fled.” (BBC, 24 March 2015)
 
“Chadian troops on Saturday returned to the northeast Nigerian border town of Gamboru, locals said, after Boko Haram took advantage of a lack of military presence to kill 11 people.” (AFP, 21 March 2015)
 
“Boko Haram militants killed 11 people in an attack on Gamboru in northeast Nigeria after the Islamists reportedly slaughtered dozens of women in nearby Bama, witnesses said Thursday. Troops from Chad were credited last month with liberating Gamboru in Borno state from Boko Haram control but Chad's withdrawal from Nigeria last week appeared to have left the town exposed.” (AFP, 19 March 2015)
 
“Nigeria's military says it has retaken the north-eastern town of Bama from the Islamist military group Boko Haram. A large number of militants were killed and a ‘mopping up’ operation is continuing in the second largest town in Borno state, it said. Boko Haram was reportedly also ousted from Goniri, its last base in neighbouring Yobe state.” (BBC, 17 March 2015)
 
“Boko Haram Islamists have set fire to homes in Nigeria's northeast town of Bama that are under their control, forcing residents to flee as troops advance to recapture it, witnesses said Sunday. The Islamists on Saturday told residents of Bama, 70 kilometres (37.5 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, to evacuate before setting fire to many homes as Nigerian troops inched closer in a bid to retake the town, residents told AFP.” (AFP, 15 March 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked the town of Ngamdu in Nigeria's northeast Borno state early on Tuesday, killing about a dozen people, witnesses and a security source said.” (AlertNet, 10 March 2015)
 
“A bomb attack rocked the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, […] A suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up at the crowded Monday Market, which has been repeatedly hit by Boko Haram attacks, including on Saturday, according to witnesses. Borno state police commissioner Clement Adoda told reporters that at least seven people died and 17 others were injured in the explosion.” (AFP, 10 March 2015)
 
“A military offensive by troops from Chad and Niger has retaken the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak and left some 200 Islamists dead, a Chadian security source said Monday. Boko Haram had held the town near the Niger border since November. Ten Chadian soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in the offensive that began on Sunday, the source said.” (AFP, 9 March 2015)
 
“At least five blasts have killed 50 people and injured 56 in the city of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria, an official has told the BBC. Two crowded markets and a busy bus station were targeted by suicide bombers, witnesses said. […] The Islamist group has not yet commented on the latest attacks, but it has used suicide bombers before.” (BBC, 7 March 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 45 people in a village in Borno state, north-east Nigeria, witnesses have said. The gunmen who stormed Njaba targeted men and boys before setting the village on fire, survivors added.” (BBC, 6 March 2015)
 
FEBRUARY 2015
 
“A woman suicide bomber on Saturday killed two passers-by and her accomplice in an attack in northeast Nigeria, witnesses and security sources told AFP. […] According to witnesses, the two women tried to board the bus in the village of Ngamdu, 90 kilometres (55 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, and 40 kilometres from Damaturu, the capital of the neighbouring state of Yobe. […] Almost 90 people have been killed in explosions blamed on Boko Haram this week alone, all of them at crowded bus stations in northern and central regions of the country.” (AFP, 28 February 2015)
 
“Boko Haram fighters have raided villages in northeast Nigeria on the border with Cameroon, apparently in reprisal for a Chadian offensive against its hideouts, residents told AFP on Friday. Scores of heavily armed militants on Wednesday rampaged through more than a dozen villages in the Kala-Balge district in Borno state, shooting, hacking residents to death and razing homes.” (AFP, 27 February 2015)
 
“Bomb attacks have killed at least 32 people in northern Nigeria, amid a wave of violence from Boko Haram militants. A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people at a bus station in Biu, witnesses say, while a second bomber was caught by a crowd and reportedly beaten to death. In Jos, three bombs thrown from a car killed 15 people at a bus station and the university.” (BBC, 26 February 2015)
 
“Suicide bombings at bus stations in two major commercial centres in northern Nigeria have killed at least 27 people, police and hospital sources say. A bomber first struck in Potiskum, and hours later a second attack took place in Kano, the main northern city.” (BBC, 24 February 2015)
 
“A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria on Sunday as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. The attack on a market in the city of Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state, was the latest in a string of suicide strikes in which children have been used.” (AFP, 22 February 2015)
 
“Nigeria's military on Saturday claimed to have recaptured the town of Baga from Boko Haram, more than a month after it was overrun in what is feared to be the worst massacre of its six-year insurgency.” (AFP, 21 February 2015)
 
“At least 30 people were killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages near the town of Chibok, in north-east Nigeria, a community leader and resident have said. The attacks on Thursday targeted the villages of Thlaimakalama and Gatamarwa, which were torched by the rampaging militants, said Pogo Bitrus, head of the Chibok Elders Forum.” (Guardian, 20 February 2015)
 
“Two suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria killed at least 38 people Tuesday, less than six weeks from elections, as the leader of Boko Haram vowed to disrupt the vote. […] In Nigeria's Borno state, three assailants in a motorised rickshaw detonated explosives at a checkpoint at Yamarkumi village, near the town of Biu, at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT). The suicide attack killed 36 people and injured 20, a source at the Biu General Hospital told AFP, requesting anonymity. […] Some four hours later, in Potiskum, the economic capital of neighbouring Yobe state, a bomber blew himself up inside Al-Amir restaurant, a popular chain in northern Nigeria. The restaurant manager and a steward were killed, while 13 staff and customers were seriously injured, a police officer and nurse the Potiskum General Hospital said.” (AFP, 17 February 2015)
 
“Hundreds of Boko Haram militants stormed the town of Askira Uba in northeast Nigeria, burning homes and public buildings, as attacks continued despite a regional campaign against the Islamist rebels, witnesses said Tuesday. Residents able to flee the town in Borno state left in droves, with only the sick and elderly remaining behind through the insurgents' rampage.” (AFP, 17 February 2015)
 
“Thirteen people have now died as a result of a female suicide bomb attack at a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, police said on Monday. […] The attack happened in the state capital shortly after midday (1100 GMT) on Sunday and was blamed on Boko Haram, who have regularly used women and young girls as human bombs across northern Nigeria.” (AFP, 16 February 2015)
 
“Nigerian troops have repelled a Boko Haram attack on the north-east city of Gombe, officials say. Soldiers and a fighter jet were used in a counter-attack after Islamist fighters overran a checkpoint on the edge of the city.” (BBC, 14 February 2015)
 
“At least 21 people were killed in two separate Boko Haram attacks on villages near the key city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, a community leader and a witness said on Friday. ‘They (Boko Haram) killed 12 people in Akida village and nine others in Mbuta village during a raid,’ said community leader Mustapha Abbagini.” (AFP, 13 February 2015)
 
“A suicide attack by a female bomber killed at least seven people at a market in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, the latest bloodshed in a region where multi-national forces are trying to crush Boko Haram Islamists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the town of Biu, Borno state, but it resembled a spate of similar bombings blamed on the Islamists militants.” (AFP, 12 February 2015) 
 
JANUARY 2015
 
“Boko Haram Islamists on Sunday captured the northeastern town of Monguno, including a military base, after a fierce battle with Nigerian troops, security sources told AFP.” (AFP, 25 January 2015)
 
“Boko Haram fighters have killed 15 villagers near Maiduguri, the city which is the epicentre of the Islamist group's six-year insurgency and where President Goodluck Jonathan is to launch his re-election campaign Saturday. […] ‘The terrorists attacked Kambari village which is less than five kilometres to Maiduguri around 5:00 am. They killed 15 people and set the entire hamlet ablaze,’ said a security source who requested anonymity.” (AFP, 24 January 2015)
 
“Hundreds of people from four villages near the devastated Nigerian town of Baga were forced to flee after Boko Haram militants told them to leave or face consequences, witnesses said Tuesday.  News of the exodus from Kekenu, Budur, Yoyo and Mile 90 villages came as Niger hosted a meeting on how to fight the rebels as concern mounted at their threat to regional security.” (AFP, 20 January 2015)
 
“A suicide bomber killed four people and wounded dozens Sunday in an attack on a bus station in Potiskum, northeastern Nigeria, police and hospital sources told AFP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the town has often come under attack from Boko Haram militants.” (AFP, 18 January 2015)
 
“A suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded 11 on Friday near a marketplace in northeastern Nigeria [in Gombe], an emergency services official told AFP. […] No one claimed immediate responsiblity for the attack, but Boko Haram militants are increasingly powerful in the north-east of Nigeria and Gombe has been hit by several suicide bombers recently, most of them at bus stations and near military installations.” (AFP, 16 January 2015)
 
“Four people were killed in suicide attacks by two female bombers on Sunday in the latest deadly violence in northeast Nigeria after the military appealed for support to help fight Boko Haram. The two women targeted a crowded market in Potiskum, Yobe State, a day after 19 people were killed in a similar attack in neighbouring Borno State, by a girl thought to be aged just 10.” (AFP, 11 January 2015)
 
“At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in north-eastern Nigeria, police say. The bomb exploded in a market in the city of Maiduguri, in Borno state. […] Correspondents say that all the signs point to the militant Islamist Boko Haram group.” (BBC, 10 January 2015)
 
“Bodies lay strewn on the streets of a key north-eastern Nigerian town following an assault by militant Islamists, officials have told the BBC. The Boko Haram group attacked Baga town on Wednesday, after over-running a military base there on Saturday, they said.  Almost the entire town had been torched and the militants were now raiding nearby areas, they added.” (BBC, 8 January 2015)
 
“On 3 January, Boko Haram insurgents stormed the town of Baga killing hundreds, forcing around 20,000 people to flee, and overrunning the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) comprising of troops from Nigeria, Niger and Chad. Reports indicate that troops from Chad and Niger withdrew from the camp prior to the attack, leaving the Nigerian army and civilian vigilantes to defend the town.  The assault on Baga and its environs continued until 7 January, while the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) and the Nigerian army attempted to regain the town. According to some estimates, 2,000 people may have died as the insurgents razed Baga and at least 15 other villages to the ground. However, several eyewitnesses put the death toll in the hundreds, while a statement issued on 13 January by the Nigerian Army, which had sent surveillance aircraft to the area, confirmed 150 deaths ‘in the interim.’” (CSW, 14 January 2015)
 
“Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to defeat militant group Boko Haram, after a series of attacks blamed on the group in recent weeks. Earlier on Thursday, at least 10 people were injured by a suicide bomber near a church in Gombe, north-east Nigeria. On Wednesday, 11 people were killed when a bomb went off on a bus heading from Gombe to neighbouring Yobe state.” (BBC, 1 January 2015)
 
DECEMBER 2014
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped about 40 boys and young men in a raid on a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, residents say. […] People who fled Malari village in Borno state and arrived in the state capital, Maiduguri, late on Friday said the men had been taken on New Year's Eve.” (BBC, 3 January 2015)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen launched a deadly raid Tuesday on a village near the town of Chibok where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April, witnesses and a security source said. The attack in Kautikari in northeast Borno state began just after sunrise when Islamists reportedly targeted local vigilantes who were guarding the area. […] Witnesses said as many as 15 people may have been killed but there was no toll available from an official source.” (AFP, 30 December 2014)
 
“Two blasts rocked crisis-hit northern Nigeria on Monday, with one bombing killing at least 20 people and a second explosion setting fire to a market, where heavy casualties were feared. The targeted cities of Bauchi and Gombe have both been hit previously by Boko Haram and while there was no claim of responsibility for the latest unrest, the Islamists were suspected. Separately, witnesses said Boko Haram gunmen stormed the northeast town of Geidam at the weekend, razing several government buildings and a prison in an attack that set many inmates free.” (AFP, 22 December 2014)
 
“At least 26 people have been killed in bombings in two major cities in northern Nigeria, emergency workers and witnesses say. The first blast at bus rank in Gombe killed at least 20 while another six died in an explosion at a market in Bauchi, they added.  Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is waging an insurgency in the area.” (BBC, 22 December 2014)
 
“Nigerian officials and witnesses say suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 30 people and kidnapped at least 185 from a village in northeastern Nigeria.  Officials say those abducted from the village of Gumsuri included women, children, and young boys, who were carted away on trucks toward the Sambisa Forest, a notorious rebel stronghold. The mass abduction occurred December 14, but news only emerged December 18, after survivors reached the city of Maiduguri.” (RFE/RL, 18 December 2014)
 
“A twin bomb attack has killed at least 30 people in a busy area of the Nigerian city of Jos. […] Jos has a mixed population of Muslims and Christians, and in recent years Boko Haram militants have attacked churches and mosques there. The group has killed more than 2,000 people this year. No group has said it carried out the latest bombings.” (BBC, 11 December 2014)
 
“At least four people have been killed and seven injured in a double attack by female suicide bombers near a market in Kano, northern Nigeria, police say. One blast hit a vehicle loading area at the Kantin Kwari textile market. Boko Haram militants are suspected of being behind the attacks.” (BBC, 10 December 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday stormed two towns in northeast Nigeria, raiding banks and burning government buildings as well as political party offices, residents told AFP.” (AFP, 4 December 2014)
 
“Boko Haram on Monday launched two separate attacks on state capitals in northeast Nigeria, when two female suicide bombers hit a busy market and fighters launched a major assault on police. The blasts in Maiduguri and the dawn raid in Damaturu came just days after a deadly mosque attack in the northern city of Kano left at least 120 people dead and hundreds injured.” (AFP, 1 December 2014)
 
NOVEMBER 2014
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in Nigeria's northeast after nightfall on Saturday, residents and a military source said. Residents said scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani, but a police source said they had been unable to verify the death toll as communications to the town had been largely cut off.” (AlertNet, 30 November 2014)
 
“Dozens have been killed in a gun and bomb attack during prayers at one of the biggest mosques in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, officials say. Many more people have been hurt, with one rescue official putting casualty figures at almost 400. […] No group said it had carried out the attack, but the assumption is that Boko Haram was behind it.” (BBC, 28 November 2014)
 
“Suicide attacks by two female bombers at a crowded market in northern Nigeria's Maiduguri city have killed 78 people, medical officials say. […] No group has said it carried out the attacks, but the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected.” (BBC, 25 November 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen disguised as traders opened fire Monday at a crowded market in a northeast Nigeria border town, a military officer and a local official said. […] ‘The terrorists disguised as traders and opened fire on unsuspecting traders at a market in Damasak’ in Borno state near the border with Niger, the officer said. It was not yet possible to give a death toll, the senior officer with direct knowledge of the raid told AFP. The shooting began at about 11:00 am (1000 GMT).” (AFP, 24 November 2014)
 
“Islamist militants from Nigeria's Boko Haram have reportedly killed 48 people in an attack on fish sellers near the border with Chad. A fish traders' group said some victims had their throats slit whilst others were tied up and drowned in Lake Chad.” (BBC, 23 November 2014)
 
“At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, officials and witnesses said on Thursday, in the latest violence to hit the restive region. The attack happened in the village of Azaya Kura in the Mafa area of Borno state on Wednesday, the caretaker chairman of Mafa local government area, Shettima Lawan said, calling it ‘wicked and despicable’.” (AFP, 20 November 2014)
 
“The Nigerian army said Sunday it had recaptured the northeastern town of Chibok, where Islamic militants abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in April, provoking a wave of global outrage.” (AFP, 16 November 2014)
 
“Boko Haram has seized the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, from where 276 girls were kidnapped more than six months ago and which the government vowed to secure after the mass abduction.” (AFP, 14 November 2014)
 
“A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber disguised in school uniform killed 47 students in northeast Nigeria Monday, prompting US and UN condemnation of one of the worst attacks against schools with a so-called Western curriculum. The explosion ripped through an all-boys school in Potiskum just as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began, causing panic and chaos.” (AFP, 11 November 2014)
 
“Twenty-one civilians were killed after Boko Haram fighters clashed with troops in the restive northeast of Nigeria, a local lawmaker said on Thursday. The fighting erupted at about 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) on Wednesday in Malam Fatori, a commercial hub known for fishing and farming in the remote north of Borno state near the border with Niger.” (AFP, 6 November 2014)
 
“Nigerian troops were on Thursday accused of killing 16 Boko Haram suspects, after vigilantes claimed to have beheaded dozens of Islamist fighters in the country's far northeast.” (AFP, 6 November 2014)
 
“Boko Haram has denied claims by Nigeria's government that it has agreed to a ceasefire and will release more than 200 abducted schoolgirls.” (AFP, 1 November 2014)
 
OCTOBER 2014
 
“A triple bombing at a bus station in north Nigeria during Friday morning rush hour killed at least eight people and injured 34 others, as hopes of a ceasefire with Boko Haram appeared to suffer another blow. It is not clear if the Islamist militants were behind the attack in Gombe city, the capital of Gombe state, but the extremists have a track record of targeting commuters.” (AFP, 31 October 2014)
 
“Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday clashed with Nigerian troops in the country's remote northeast, forcing thousands to flee, after two other attacks that further undermined claims of a ceasefire.” (AFP, 29 October 2014)
 
“Suspected ‎Boko Haram gunmen killed several people in a village in Nigeria's far northeast, a local administrator said on Wednesday, in the latest attack since a supposed ceasefire was announced. Heavily armed fighters in all-terrain vehicles stormed the town of Kukawa, some 180 kilometres (112 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, and opened fire on police and a local market.” (AFP, 29 October 2014)
 
“Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria's north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say.  The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they took place a day after the military announced it had agreed a ceasefire with the Boko Haram group.” (BBC, 23 October 2014)
 
“A bomb blast at a bus station in a north Nigeria area previously targeted by Boko Haram killed five people, police said Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest crack in the government's purported ceasefire with the Islamists. Police in Bauchi state confirmed overnight witness reports of a huge explosion at the terminal in the town of Azare at 9:45 pm (2045 GMT).” (AFP, 23 October 2014)
 
“Suspected militant Islamists have shot and slaughtered people in three villages in north-east Nigeria, despite government claims that it had agreed a truce with them, residents say.” (BBC, 20 October 2014)
 
“Boko Haram militants killed seven people on Monday in the remote northeast of Nigeria, residents and an official said, with reports indicating the victims were beheaded in a revenge attack. The overnight raid targeted the town of Ngamdu in troubled Borno state, the area hardest hit in the Islamists' five-year uprising.” (BBC, 6 October 2014)
 
SEPTEMBER 2014
 
“More than 260 Islamist militants have surrendered in north-eastern Nigeria, the military has said. Soldiers had also killed a man who featured in Boko Haram's propaganda videos pretending to be the group's leader Abubakar Shekau, it added.” (BBC, 24 September 2014)
 
“Boko Haram militants have attacked a rural market in the north-east Nigerian town of Mainok, killing dozens of people, officials and witnesses say.” (BBC, 20 September 2014)
 
“Boko Haram militants are in charge of at least 25 towns and villages in northeast Nigeria, the region's Roman Catholic bishop has claimed, warning of a deteriorating security situation. Bishop Oliver Dashe said 10 towns in Yobe state, the same number in Borno and five in Adawama had fallen to the rebels over the last month, as they seek to carve out a hardline Islamic state.” (AFP, 18 September 2014)
 
“Gunmen have attacked a teacher training college in the Nigerian city of Kano, with officials saying at least 15 people have been killed. The attackers exchanged fire with police outside the college before running inside. Another 34 people were injured.  It is not clear who was responsible, although suspicion will fall on militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.” (BBC, 17 September 2014)
 
“Boko Haram insurgents attacked a market outside the key northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, local people who witnessed the incident told AFP on Saturday. About 50 gunmen on motorbikes stormed the weekly market in Ngom village, some 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) from the Borno state capital, at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) on Friday and opened fire, they said.” (AFP, 13 September 2014)
 
“The Nigerian army says it has killed some 100 Boko Haram militants, after repelling an attack on a key town in north-eastern Borno state. Government forces reportedly seized vehicles and ammunition from insurgents while securing Konduga, 35km (22 miles) from the state capital Maiduguri, on Friday. The battle followed a warning by elders that Maiduguri was ‘surrounded’.”(BBC, 13 September 2014)
 
“Nigeria's military launched ground and air offensives against Boko Haram to recapture the northeastern town of Michika that fell to the jihadist militants over the weekend, witnesses said on Wednesday.  Hundreds of troops aided by military jets have been pounding Boko Haram positions in Michika in Adamawa state since Sunday, residents of nearby towns and villages told AFP.” (AFP, 10 September 2014)
 
“Twenty Nigerian police officers are still missing three weeks after Boko Haram fighters attacked a training academy outside the remote northeastern town of Gwoza, the country's police chief said on Tuesday.” (AFP, 9 September 2014)
 
“Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has captured the key north-eastern town of Michika, residents say, gaining more territory in its efforts to create an Islamic state. People fled into bushes as gunfire rang out in the town, they added.” (BBC, 8 September 2014)
 
“Panicked residents fled their homes in northeast Nigeria on Monday in fear of Boko Haram attacks while the military sought to recapture ground lost to the militants in recent weeks. The exodus from Mubi, the commercial hub of Adamawa state, began on Sunday after the insurgents seized Michika 42 kilometres (26 miles) away the day before, heightening fears of an impending strike.” (AFP, 8 September 2014)
 
“Bodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC. Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama, preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.” (BBC, 4 September 2014)
 
“Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has captured the town of Banki, which borders Cameroon, after government troops fled, residents say.” (BBC, 3 September 2014)
 
“According to authorities, in the last ten days at least 9,000 people have arrived in Cameroon's Far North Region, more than 2,000 sought refuge in Niger, and more people continue to arrive. The new arrivals fled recurrent attacks in the past three weeks in the Gwoza area in Nigeria's Borno State, before reaching safety in Cameroon. […] However, even upon arrival in Cameroon, they are not necessarily out of harm's way. On Sunday, insurgents attacked Kerawa town inside Cameroon, forcing refugees and some local residents to flee further inland.” (UNHCR, 2 September 2014)
 
“Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after fierce fighting with government forces, residents say. Thousands of civilians have fled the town, along with soldiers, they added. The military has not yet officially commented on the claim that it has lost control of Bama, the second biggest town in Borno state.” (BBC, 1 September 2014)
 
AUGUST 2014
 
“Sustained Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria's far northeast have forced thousands of people from their homes, swamping towns in the north of neighbouring Cameroon, authorities said on Sunday.” (AFP, 31 August 2014)
 
“Boko Haram on Tuesday attempted to blow up a bridge on the Nigerian border with Cameroon after overrunning two towns and sending residents and soldiers fleeing, police and locals said.” (AFP, 26 August 2014)
 
“Militant group Boko Haram has said it has set up an Islamic state in the towns and villages it has seized in north-eastern Nigeria.  Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was speaking in a video released to congratulate his fighters for seizing the town of Gwoza earlier this month.” (BBC, 25 August 2014)
 
“Boko Haram has seized control of a town [Buni Yadi] in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into Islamist hands in the crisis-hit region and an indication of the group's increasing territorial ambitions.  The insurgents have tended to use hit-and-run attacks in the past but the recent seizure of towns suggests a significant shift in strategy, more in keeping with their stated goal of carving out a strict Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria.” (AFP, 21 August 2014)
 
“Northern Nigeria's riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC.” (BBC, 21 August 2014)
 
“A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers has told the BBC.  The soldier, who requested anonymity, said at least 40 of his colleagues would refuse orders to deploy.” (BBC, 19 August 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 10 people who had fled their homes to escape repeated attacks by the insurgents, after hunting them down in a nearby village, witnesses said on Monday.  Residents of Krenuwa village fled to nearby communities after a Boko Haram raid last month that left seven dead and saw the extremists raze a military camp, police station and several homes.” (AFP, 18 August 2014)
 
“Chadian troops have rescued around 85 Nigerians kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists last weekend from fishing communities in Nigeria's extreme northeast, security and human rights sources said Saturday.” (AFP, 16 August 2014)
 
“Residents of a Nigerian village on the shore of Lake Chad say at least 50 residents are missing after a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants.  A witness told the BBC that 26 people were also killed during the raid on the village of Doron Baga on Sunday.” (BBC, 15 August 2014)
 
“Hundreds of people who escaped a Boko Haram attack on their town [Gwoza] in Nigeria's restive north and fled to a nearby mountain said Saturday they were without any food.” (AFP, 9 August 2014)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen attacked Nigeria's restive northeastern town of Gwoza on Wednesday leaving dozens dead, residents said, in the latest violence blamed on the Islamists.” (AFP, 6 August 2014)
 
JULY 2014
 
“At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria's biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list.” (BBC, 30 July 2014)
 
“Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state late Tuesday killing at least six people and injuring several others, witnesses told AFP blaming the Boko Haram Islamists.” (AFP, 29 July 2014)
 
“Two blasts by female suicide bombers killed three people and injured 13 in Nigeria's Kano city on Monday, bringing the number of attacks this week in the area to five and overshadowing festivities marking the end of Ramadan.” (AFP, 28 July 2014)
 
“Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Sunday cancelled celebrations to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan after two bomb attacks blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram.  At least five people were killed and eight were injured in a bomb attack on a Catholic church in a mainly Christian area of the city, the largest in Nigeria's north, police said.” (AFP, 27 July 2014)
 
“The Cameroonian military says members of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country's deputy prime minister in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata. […] Separately, at least five people in northern Nigeria were killed in a blast - residents suspect Boko Haram.” (BBC, 27 July 2014)
 
“At least one person was killed and eight other people injured when a blast ripped through a crowded bus station in Kano, northern Nigeria, police and witnesses said on Thursday. The explosion happened at about 3:00pm (1400 GMT) at the New Motor Park in the predominantly Christian Sabon Gari neighbourhood, which has previously been targeted by Boko Haram militants.” (AFP, 24 July 2014)
 
“Militant Islamists are suspected to have blown up a major bridge in north-eastern Nigeria, disrupting transport links with Cameroon, residents said.” (BBC, 23 July 2014)
 
“Two explosions have ripped through the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, killing at least 40 people, police say. […] No-one has claimed responsiblity for the twin attacks” (BBC, 23 July 2014)
 
“Nigeria's militant Islamists are in control of the key town of Damboa in north-eastern Nigeria, a local vigilante leader has told the BBC.” (BBC, 21 July 2014)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen killed many people in an attack on the town of Damboa in the restive northeast, throwing explosives into residential homes and shooting dead civilians who tried to surrender, an official and witnesses said Friday.” (AFP, 18 July 2014)
 
“The Islamist insurgency Boko Haram in Nigeria killed at least 2,053 civilians in an estimated 95 attacks during the first half of 2014. The figures are based on detailed analyses of media reports as well as field investigations.” (AFP, 15 July 2014)
 
“At least 38 people were killed following a raid by suspected Islamist Boko Haram gunmen on a village in northeast Nigeria and a military aerial bombardment of fleeing residents mistaken for insurgents, villagers said Monday.” (AFP, 14 July 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists disguised in army uniforms killed seven people in an attack near the northeastern border with Cameroon, residents said Monday.” (AFP, 7 July 2014)
 
“More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday, but more than 200 schoolgirls are still being held by the Islamists.” (AFP, 7 July 2014)
 
“Three women have been arrested in Nigeria for recruiting female members for the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, the country's military says. The women are said to have targeted widows and young girls, promising them marriage to Boko Haram members. The militant group now has a female wing, the military says.” (BBC, 4 July 2014)
 
“Nigeria's military says it has raided a Boko Haram intelligence unit thought to be linked to the recent abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls. The cell leader Babuji Ya'ari was arrested, a military statement said.” (BBC, 1 July 2014)
 
“A truck exploded in a huge fireball killing at least 15 people on Tuesday in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the latest attack in the area repeatedly hit by Boko Haram Islamists.” (AFP, 1 July 2014)
 
JUNE 2014
 
“Four villages in north-eastern Nigeria have been attacked by suspected Boko Haram militants who targeted at least one church. The bodies of at least 40 civilians and six militants have been recovered, a local vigilante has told the BBC. It is the latest assault on villages near Chibok, the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April.” (BBC, 29 June 2014)
 
“At least 10 people have been killed and 14 injured in an explosion in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, police say. Police spokesman Mohammed Haruna told AFP news agency the blast, which took place on Friday evening, occurred in a building widely known as a brothel. The cause of the blast is not clear, although Islamist militant group Boko Haram have repeatedly attacked Bauchi.” (AFP, 28 June 2014)
 
“A bomb attack on a busy shopping district in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, has killed at least 21 people and injured 52 more. […] Police say a suspect has been arrested. No group has claimed responsibility. Islamist militant group Boko Haram has bombed targets in Abuja and across northern Nigeria recently.” (BBC, 25 June 2014)
 
“Unidentified gunmen killed 38 people, mostly women and children, in raids on two villages in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, an area plagued by years of sectarian conflict, officials said Tuesday. The late Monday attacks targeted the remote villages of Fadan Karshi and Nandu in southern Kaduna, the head of the area's local government, Emmanuel Adamu Danzaria, told AFP.” (AFP, 24 June 2014)
 
“More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by suspected militant Islamists, residents and officials say. The abductions are said to have taken place during a series of raids over the past week on villages in Borno state. Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, and people have been fleeing the villages, a BBC reporter says.  The Islamist group Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 girls it captured in Borno's Chibok town on 14 April.” (BBC, 24 June 2014)
 
“An explosion has struck a public health college in Nigeria's second city of Kano, in the north, killing at least eight people, police say. […] The city has been targeted in the past by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which aims to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.” (BBC, 23 June 2014)
 
“At least 10 people were killed Saturday in raids by suspected Boko Haram gunmen on two villages near the town of Chibok where Islamists abducted more than 200 girls in April, residents and local leaders said.” (AFP, 21 June 2014)
 
“At least 21 people have been killed in a bomb blast in northern Nigeria as they were watching a World Cup match, a hospital source has told the BBC. […] At least 27 people are said to have been seriously injured. Public screenings of the World Cup in some parts of Nigeria have been banned because of threats by Boko Haram. […] No group has said it was behind the latest blast.” (AFP, 17 June 2014)
 
“Nigeria's military said on Tuesday that they had detained more than 460 people travelling from the country's north to the south, reportedly on suspicion of being Boko Haram members.  Army spokesman Brigadier General Olajide Laleye said 462 people, including eight women, were held in southern Abia state on Monday as they headed on 36 buses from northern states such as Bauchi and Jigawa to Port Harcourt.” (AFP, 17 June 2014)
 
“At least 15 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed a market in northern Nigeria late on Sunday, witnesses and a security source said. Villagers in the farming community of Daku, in Borno state, described how they were surrounded by at least 20 gunmen who fired indiscriminately and threw petrol bombs, engulfing the market in flames.” (AFP, 16 June 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted at least 20 women close to where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria, eyewitnesses say.” (BBC, 10 June 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack on a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people. The attackers told villagers they had come to preach before firing on a crowd that gathered, survivors told the BBC. Separately, officials say up to 200 may have been killed in a wave of attacks in villages in the region this week.” (BBC, 5 June 2014)
 
“Christian communities in the Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, north east Nigeria are under sustained attack from the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram. Nine people died on 1 June when Boko Haram gunmen stormed the morning service of the Church of the Brethren (Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria, EYN,) in Attagara village, near Gwoza Town. […] Also on 1 June, sect members attacked Gwoshe Town in Gwoza, burning down two EYN churches and several homes and shops.” (CSW, 5 June 2014)
 
“Four people were killed on Thursday near the home of a state governor in northeast Nigeria when a pick-up truck loaded with grain bags exploded, a government source told AFP. The blast happened at about 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) near the private residence of Gombe state governor Ibrahim Dankwambo in the upscale Government Reserve area of the state capital. […] It was not immediately clear if the explosion -- which was heard across the city -- was the handiwork of Boko Haram militants or politically motivated.” (AFP, 5 June 2014)
 
“A bombing at a football pitch in Nigeria's restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday in an area previously attacked by Boko Haram Islamists, a police officer and a nurse said. The blast hit the town of Mubi in Adamawa state, one of three in the northeast which has been under a state of emergency for more than a year as Nigeria's military has tried to crush Boko Haram's five-year extremist uprising.” (AFP, 1 June 2014)
 
“A series of suspected Boko Haram attacks in four villages in Nigeria's restive northeast killed several people, residents said Sunday, in the latest violence blamed on the Islamist insurgents. […] All of the targeted villages are in the Gamboru Ngala district near the border with Cameroon, where Boko Haram killed hundreds in a gruesome attack earlier this month.” (AFP, 1 June 2014)
 
MAY 2014
 
“A suspected Boko Haram attack on a military base and police station in northeastern Nigeria left at least 33 people dead, a security source told AFP on Wednesday. The source, who requested anonymity, said 18 soldiers and 15 police lost their lives in the assault in the town of Buni Yadi, in Yobe state, at about 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Monday.” (AFP, 28 May 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the military and police in the northeast Nigerian town of Buni Yadi, where the group massacred scores of students earlier this year, witnesses said on Tuesday.” (AFP, 27 May 2014)
 
“At least 24 people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram gunmen raided a village in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamists have stepped up deadly attacks on villages in recent months, residents told AFP.  Dozens of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed Kamuya village in Borno state after sunrise as locals were heading to the weekly market, opening fire on residents. […] On Wednesday suspected militant fighters killed 34 people in raids on four villages in two districts of Borno state, according to figures provided by residents.” (AFP, 25 May 2014)
 
“Militants in Nigeria have raided three villages and killed those they accused of being anti-Boko Haram vigilantes, residents have told the BBC. More than 30 people were killed in the attacks overnight into Friday in north-eastern Borno state, they said.” (BBC, 23 May 2014)
 
“Boko Haram gunmen killed more than 50 people in three separate attacks, including two near Chibok, the Nigerian town were the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said on Wednesday.” (AFP, 21 May 2014)
 
“Multiple car bombs killed dozens Tuesday in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau state, days after a security summit in France where African leaders committed to a ‘war’ on Nigeria’s Islamist rebels, Boko Haram. […] Casualty figures of the Jos bombing are not clear yet, but an emergency official told IPS that the toll is ‘very massive’. Some say as many as 200 people were killed because the attack occurred in a market. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but it is suspected to be the work of Boko Haram.” (IPS, 20 May 2014)
 
“A suicide blast in a street full of bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed four people, police say. One of those killed was a girl aged 12, they say. Witnesses say the explosion was caused by a bomb in a car in the mainly Christian area of Sabon Gari.  The area has previously been targeted by Boko Haram Islamist militants but it is the first attack on Nigeria's second biggest city for several months.” (BBC, 19 May 2014)
 
“Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants a month ago.” (AFP, 14 May 2014)
 
“Residents of three villages in northern Nigeria have repelled an attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters, an eyewitness has told the BBC. About 200 of the militants were killed during the fighting in the Kala-Balge district of Borno state, he said. The witness said the residents had formed a vigilante group.” (BBC, 14 May 2014)
 
“UNHCR is alarmed at the recent wave of attacks on civilians in northeast Nigeria. The brutality and frequency of these attacks is unprecedented. The past two months have seen multiple kidnappings and deaths, creating population displacement both inside Nigeria and into neighbouring countries.” (UNHCR, 9 May 2014)
 
“Islamist fighters riding in armoured trucks and on motorcycles stormed Gamboru Ngala after midday on Monday. […] ‘The toll is very heavy. We believe there are more than 200 dead,’ the source [medical official] said, adding that 2,000 Nigerians, including soldiers had fled to Cameroon. […] In a fresh attack, suspected Boko Haram militants Wednesday killed seven people in Buji-Buji, also in Borno state, the village head, Mohammed Garba told journalists.” (AFP, 7 May 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants have abducted eight more girls in north-eastern Nigeria. The latest kidnapping happened on Sunday night in the village of Warabe, in Borno state. The girls taken were aged between 12 and 15.  On Monday, Boko Haram's leader threatened to ‘sell’ more than 230 girls seized from their school, also in Borno, on 14 April.” (BBC, 6 May 2014)
 
“A car bomb attack has killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more in the Nigerian capital Abuja, officials say.[…] No group has said it carried out Thursday's attack.” (BBC, 2 May 2014)
 
APRIL 2014
 
“It has been a little more than two weeks since gunmen raided a school in northeastern Nigeria and kidnapped more than 200 teenage girls from their dormitories. Authorities aren't talking, as impatience mounts. Several hundred people marched in Abuja Wednesday to demand answers and ‘concrete and visible’ action from the federal government.” (BBC, 30 April 2014)
 
“More than 40 insurgents and four soldiers died in clashes between Nigerian troops and Islamists near the scene where scores of abducted girls are believed to be held in the north of the country, the military said Friday.” (AFP, 25 April 2014)
 
„Some 190 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being abducted last week, their head teacher has told the BBC - far more than the official figure.” (BBC, 21 April 2014)
 
“The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria's capital that killed at least 75 people, in a video message obtained by AFP on Saturday.” (AFP, 19 April 2014)
 
“Nigeria's military has admitted that most of the teenage girls abducted by suspected Islamist militants have not been freed as it earlier stated.” (BBC, 18 April 2014)
 
“Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said Tuesday. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno state came hours after a bomb blast ripped through a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Abuja, killing 75 people, the deadliest attack ever in Nigeria's capital.” (AFP, 16 April 2014)
 
“Nigerian police boosted security across Abuja on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a packed bus station killing at least 75 people, the deadliest attack ever to hit the capital.” (AFP, 15 April 2014)
 
“Gunmen have killed 135 civilians in north east Nigeria since Wednesday, a senior official from the region has told the BBC. Borno state senator Ahmed Zannah said the killings took place in at least three separate attacks in the state.” (BBC, 13 April 2014)
 
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 19 people, including six college teachers, in three separate attacks in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state, residents and travellers said Friday. The killings took place on Thursday and Friday in Dikwa, Kala-Balge towns and near Dalwa village in the state, the bastion of the Islamist sect, they said.” (AFP, 11 April 2014)
 
“Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing seven officers and a civilian, a police chief told AFP. The raid in the town of Gwaram in Jigawa state began at 1:00 am (0000 GMT) and sparked an hours-long shootout with the security forces, said Tamari Yabo, the assistant inspector-general of police in charge of the region. Boko Haram Islamists, waging a brutal insurgency which has killed thousands since 2009, have carried out dozens of attacks in surrounding areas, but Jigawa itself has been spared much of the violence.” (AFP, 9 April 2014)
 
“Around 20 people may have died when gunmen attacked a mosque in Buni Gari village in Yobe State, north-eastern Nigeria, during the early hours of 5 April. The gunmen, believed to be members of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, are reported to have attacked Buni Gari just as villagers were gathering at the mosque for dawn prayers.” (CSW, 7 April 2014)
 
“Boko Haram militants attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said Sunday. Among the dead were Muslim worshippers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi Bego, spokesman for the governor of the troubled state of Yobe.” (AFP, 6 April 2014)
 
“At least 15 civilians have been killed in a suicide bombing by suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria, officials say. Six of the attackers also died in the explosion, which took place on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri, a defence ministry spokesman said.” (BBC, 1 April 2014)
 
 
SOURCES: (all links accessed at 18 August 2015)
 

• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attack kills 17 in Nigeria, 6 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-kills-17-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Islamist gunmen kill eight in northern Nigeria attack, 9 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/islamist-gunmen-kill-eight-northern-nigeria-attack-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Islamists kill 19 in northern Nigeria: witnesses, 11 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-islamists-kill-19-northern-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria capital beefs up security after deadly bombing, 15 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-capital-beefs-security-after-deadly-bombing
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school, 16 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/islamists-abduct-more-100-girls-nigeria-school
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram leader claims Nigeria capital bombing, 19 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-leader-claims-nigeria-capital-bombing
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Dozens killed in clashes between Nigerian troops, Islamists: military, 25 April 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/dozens-killed-clashes-between-nigerian-troops-islamists-military
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: World powers join search for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, 7 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-kills-hundreds-nigeria-offers-reward-girls
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria's president rules out prisoner swap for missing girls, 14 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerias-president-rules-out-prisoner-swap-missing-girls
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attacks kill more than 50 in Nigeria, 21 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attacks-kill-more-50-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kill 24 in Nigeria village raid: residents, 25 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kill-24-nigeria-village-raid-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Military, police hit in fresh Boko Haram attack, 27 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/military-police-hit-fresh-boko-haram-attack-witnesses (Accessed 10 June 2014)
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 33 dead in Nigerian police, military base raid: source, 28 May 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-33-dead-nigerian-police-military-base-raid-source
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Bombing at northeast Nigeria football pitch kills at least 40, 1 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/bombing-northeast-nigeria-football-pitch-kills-least-40-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attack four villages in northeast Nigeria, 1 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-four-villages-northeast-nigeria-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Four dead in explosion near Nigerian governor's home, 5 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/four-dead-explosion-near-nigerian-governors-home
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill at least 15 in northern Nigerian market, 16 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-least-15-northern-nigerian-market
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military detains 460 suspected of links to Boko Haram, 17 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-detains-460-suspected-links-boko-haram
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 10 dead in Boko Haram raids on Nigeria villages: local leaders, 21 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-10-dead-boko-haram-raids-nigeria-villages-local-leaders
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill 38 in north Nigeria's Kaduna state: officials, 24 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-38-north-nigerias-kaduna-state-officials
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Bomb hidden in truck kills at least 15 in embattled Nigerian city, 1 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/bomb-hidden-truck-kills-least-15-embattled-nigerian-city (Accessed 15 July 2014)
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blast in northern Nigeria kills 10: police, 28 June 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blast-northern-nigeria-kills-10-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Boko Haram Islamists kill 7 in northeast Nigeria, 7 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-boko-haram-islamists-kill-7-northeast-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: More than 60 women, girls escape abductors in Nigeria, 7 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/more-60-women-girls-escape-abductors-nigeria-security-source
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 38 killed in raid on Nigerian village: residents, 14 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-38-killed-raid-nigerian-village-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram Islamists 'kill many' in northeast attack: local official, 18 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-islamists-kill-many-northeast-attack-local-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blast rocks bus station in north Nigerian city of Kano: witnesses, 24 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blast-rocks-bus-station-north-nigerian-city-kano-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two female suicide bombers kill 3, wound 13 in Nigeria's Kano, 28 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/police-foil-suicide-bombing-attempt-woman-kano
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Five dead in bombing of church in north Nigeria's Kano, 27 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/five-dead-bombing-church-north-nigerias-kano
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide bombers kill at least six in Nigeria mosques: witnesses, 29 July 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suicide-bombers-kill-least-six-nigeria-mosques-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 'Dozens' killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria: locals, 6 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/dozens-killed-boko-haram-attack-nigeria-locals
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Survivors of Boko Haram attack stranded on mountain with no food, 9 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb) http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/survivors-boko-haram-attack-stranded-mountain-no-food
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 10 dead in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria: witnesses, 18 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/10-dead-boko-haram-attacks-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Chadian troops 'rescue 85 Boko Haram hostages', 16 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/chadian-troops-rescue-85-boko-haram-hostages
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram takes over another Nigeria town: witnesses, official, 21 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-takes-over-another-nigeria-town-witnesses-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram seizes more towns in NE Nigeria as 'army flees', 26 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-seizes-more-towns-ne-nigeria-army-flees
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Thousands flee Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria for Cameroon: police, 31 August 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/cameroon/thousands-flee-boko-haram-attacks-nigeria-cameroon-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Thousands flee Nigeria town as Boko Haram capture more territory, 8 September 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/thousands-flee-nigeria-town-boko-haram-capture-more-territory
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria says 20 police still missing after Boko Haram attack, 9 September 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-says-20-police-still-missing-after-boko-haram-attack
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria air and ground attacks to reclaim town from Boko Haram: witnesses, 10 September 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-air-and-ground-attacks-reclaim-town-boko-haram-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attack market in northeast Nigeria: witnesses, 13 September 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-market-northeast-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram 'in charge of 25 towns' in NE Nigeria: bishop, 18 September 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-charge-25-towns-ne-nigeria-bishop
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram 'beheads' seven in Nigeria attack, 6 October 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-beheads-seven-nigeria-attack
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Bombing at Nigeria bus station kills 5: police, 23 October 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/bombing-nigeria-bus-station-kills-5-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Several killed in suspected Boko Haram attack: local official, 29 October 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/several-killed-suspected-boko-haram-attack-local-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attacks commercial hub in Nigeria's Adamawa state, 29 October 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attacks-commercial-hub-nigerias-adamawa-state
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Triple bombing at north Nigeria bus station kills 8, 31 October 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/triple-bombing-north-nigeria-bus-station-kills-8
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attack in NE Nigeria kills 21: senator, 6 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attack-ne-nigeria-kills-21-senator
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Summary execution, beheading, amputation claims in Boko Haram fight, 6 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/summary-execution-beheading-amputation-claims-boko-haram-fight
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide bomber kills 47 boys in Nigeria school massacre, 11 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suicide-bomber-kills-47-boys-nigeria-school-massacre
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram seizes Chibok, hometown of kidnapped schoolgirls, 14 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-seizes-chibok-hometown-kidnapped-schoolgirls
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria: Boko Haram sows fear through female suicide bombers, 18 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-sows-fear-through-female-suicide-bombers
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian army recaptures abducted girls' hometown, 16 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/woman-suicide-bomber-kills-several-nigerian-market
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 45 dead in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria, 20 November 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-45-dead-suspected-boko-haram-attack-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attacks Nigeria market: military, official, 24 November 2014
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attacks-nigeria-market-military-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria rocked by new Boko Haram raid and suicide attack, 1 December 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-market-blasts-two-female-bombers-more-10-dead-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram raid two northeast Nigeria towns‎: residents, 4 December 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-raid-two-northeast-nigeria-towns-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Female suicide bombers kill four at busy Nigeria market, 10 December 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/female-suicide-bombers-kill-four-busy-nigeria-market
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two blasts kill at least 20 in restive northern Nigeria after weekend violence, 22 December 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-bombing-kills-20-boko-haram-storms-another-town
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram raids northeast Nigeria town: witnesses, 30 December 2014 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-raids-northeast-nigeria-town-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: NE Nigeria hit by wave of suicide bombings as violence spikes, 11 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/ne-nigeria-hit-wave-suicide-bombings-violence-spikes
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: NE Nigeria suicide bombing kills five, wounds 11: emergency services, 16 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/ne-nigeria-suicide-bombing-kills-five-wounds-11-emergency-services
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide bomber kills four at Nigeria bus station, 18 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suicide-bomber-kills-four-nigeria-bus-station
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Hundreds flee Nigeria villages after Boko Haram warning: union leader, 20 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/hundreds-flee-nigeria-villages-after-boko-haram-warning-union-leader
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kills 15 villagers in Nigeria's northeast, 24 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kills-15-villagers-nigerias-northeast
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram captures Nigerian town of Monguno: security sources, 25 January 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-captures-nigerian-town-monguno-security-sources
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least seven die in Nigeria suicide blast: witnesses, 12 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-seven-die-nigeria-suicide-blast-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 21 dead in two Boko Haram attacks in NE Nigeria: community leader, witness, 13 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/21-dead-two-boko-haram-attacks-ne-nigeria-community-leader-witness
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Death toll rises to 13 in NE Nigeria attack: police, 16 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/death-toll-rises-13-ne-nigeria-attack-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide attacks kill 38 as Boko Haram threatens Nigeria vote, 17 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/toll-checkpoint-blast-near-biu-ne-nigeria-climbs-36
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram destroys northeast Nigeria town: witnesses, 17 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-destroys-northeast-nigeria-town-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian military claims recapture of Baga from Boko Haram, 21 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-military-claims-recapture-baga-boko-haram
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Young girl suicide bomber kills seven in Nigeria, 22 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/young-girl-suicide-bomber-kills-seven-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram raid villages after Chadian offensive: residents, 27 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-raid-villages-after-chadian-offensive-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two passers-by, accomplice die in Nigeria suicide bombing, 28 February 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/two-passers-accomplice-die-nigeria-suicide-bombing
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Chad, Niger troops retake Nigerian town, 200 Islamists killed: source, 9 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/chad-niger-troops-retake-nigerian-town-200-islamists-killed-source
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram hits Maiduguri again as Nigeria dismisses IS link, 10 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-hits-maiduguri-again-nigeria-dismisses-link
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram burns Nigerian town as troops advance: residents, 15 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-burns-nigerian-town-troops-advance-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attacks Nigeria's Gamboru, women slaughtered in Bama, 19 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attacks-nigerias-gamboru-women-slaughtered-bama
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Chad troops return to Nigeria town after Boko Haram kill 11, 21 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/chad-troops-return-nigeria-town-after-boko-haram-kill-11
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Regional troops retake Nigerian town from Boko Haram: Niger minister, 26 March 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/regional-troops-retake-nigerian-town-boko-haram-niger-minister
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Explosion near bus station in Gombe, NE Nigeria, kills 5: witnesses, 2 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/explosion-near-bus-station-gombe-ne-nigeria-kills-5-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram 'open fire on dozens' in NE Nigeria raid, 6 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-open-fire-dozens-ne-nigeria-raid
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kill four in NE Nigeria village raid, 4 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kill-four-ne-nigeria-village-raid
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Gunmen kill two in Nigeria's NE village: witnesses, 10 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/gunmen-kill-two-nigerias-ne-village-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Failed suicide bomber targets Shiite mosque in NE Nigeria: residents, 20 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/failed-suicide-bomber-targets-shiite-mosque-ne-nigeria-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram retakes NE town from Nigerian army: witnesses, 25 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-retakes-ne-town-nigerian-army-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Dozens of soldiers, civilians killed in fresh Boko Haram violence, 27 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/dozens-soldiers-civilians-killed-fresh-boko-haram-violence
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria claims rescue of nearly 300 women, girls from Boko Haram stronghold, 28 April 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-claims-rescue-nearly-300-women-girls-boko-haram-stronghold
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria rescues more hostages, fate of Chibok girls uncertain, 1 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-rescues-more-hostages-fate-chibok-girls-uncertain
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military claims rescue of another 25 Boko Haram hostages, 6 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-claims-rescue-another-25-boko-haram-hostages
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nine killed in Boko Haram clash in NE Nigeria: sources, 13 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nine-killed-boko-haram-clash-ne-nigeria-sources
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 55 killed in Boko Haram raids on two Nigerian villages: residents, 15 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-55-killed-boko-haram-raids-two-nigerian-villages-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Seven killed in northeast Nigeria suicide attack, 16 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/seven-killed-northeast-nigeria-suicide-attack
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram recaptures key town in northeast Nigeria: official, 16 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-recaptures-key-town-northeast-nigeria-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kills 3, abducts 7 in NE Nigeria: local govt, 19 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kills-3-abducts-7-ne-nigeria-local-govt
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigeria military says 'scores' of Islamists killed, 20 hostages rescued, 23 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-military-says-scores-islamists-killed-20-hostages-rescued
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram attacks NE Nigeria, military jets pound rebel positions, 25 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-attacks-ne-nigeria-military-jets-pound-rebel-positions
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Death toll from Boko Haram NE Nigeria attack hits 37: vigilantes, 26 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/death-toll-boko-haram-ne-nigeria-attack-hits-37-vigilantes
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram raids two Nigeria towns, 31 May 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-raids-two-nigeria-towns (Accessed 19 June 2015)
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 13 dead in suicide attack at NE Nigeria market, 2 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/13-dead-suicide-attack-ne-nigeria-market
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blast in Nigeria's Maiduguri kills six: vigilante, witness, 3 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blast-nigerias-maiduguri-kills-six-vigilante-witness
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Blasts rocks NE Nigeria as Buhari pushes regional fight against Boko Haram, 4 June 2015(a) (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/blasts-rocks-ne-nigeria-buhari-pushes-regional-fight-against-boko-haram
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Death toll rises to 18 in Maiduguri, NE Nigeria blast, 4 June 2015(b) (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/death-toll-rises-18-maiduguri-ne-nigeria-blast
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two dead in NE Nigeria suicide attack: police, 7 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/two-dead-ne-nigeria-suicide-attack-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 15 dead as Boko Haram attacks village in NE Nigeria: residents, 9 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/15-dead-boko-haram-attacks-village-ne-nigeria-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 10 dead in two blasts in NE Nigeria: police, vigilantes, 15 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/10-dead-two-blasts-ne-nigeria-police-vigilantes
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Chad war planes bomb Boko Haram after attacks, 18 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/chad/chad-war-planes-bomb-boko-haram-after-attacks
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Civilians hit again in NE Nigeria, as Boko Haram kills 42, 24 June 2015a (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/civilians-hit-again-ne-nigeria-boko-haram-kills-42
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: '12 year old girl' kills 10 in NE Nigeria suicide attack, 24 June 2015b (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/10-dead-30-injured-suicide-blast-ne-nigeria-village-resident-health-worker
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Five dead in suicide blast at Nigeria leprosy hospital, 28 June 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/five-dead-suicide-blast-nigeria-leprosy-hospital
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Failed suicide attack in NE Nigeria leaves two dead, 1 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/failed-suicide-attack-ne-nigeria-leaves-two-dead
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nearly 150 killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks in NE Nigeria, 2 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/around-100-killed-boko-haram-attack-ne-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 29 killed in Islamist attack in NE Nigeria: witness, 3 July 2015a (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-29-killed-islamist-attack-ne-nigeria-witness
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Female suicide bomber kills 12 in Nigeria mosque: witness, vigilante, 3 July 2015b (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/female-suicide-bomber-kills-12-nigeria-mosque-witness-vigilante
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide bomber kills five in Nigeria church: police, witness, 5 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suicide-bomber-kills-five-nigeria-church-police-witness
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Female suicide bomber kills four near military checkpoint in NE Nigeria: witnesses, 7 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/female-suicide-bomber-kills-four-near-military-checkpoint-ne-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram gunmen kill eight in Nigeria's remote northeast: residents, 10 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-gunmen-kill-eight-nigerias-remote-northeast-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 11 killed in Boko Haram raid on NE Nigeria village: residents, 11 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/11-killed-boko-haram-raid-ne-nigeria-village-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suicide attack at checkpoint in Nigeria's Maiduguri, 13 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suicide-attack-checkpoint-nigerias-maiduguri
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Dozens killed in Boko Haram raids on NE Nigeria villages: police, 14 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/dozens-killed-boko-haram-raids-ne-nigeria-villages-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: At least 30 dead in triple Islamist attack in NE Nigeria, 15 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/least-30-dead-triple-islamist-attack-ne-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Twin blasts hit market in NE Nigeria, 'nearly 50 killed', 16 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/twin-blasts-hit-market-ne-nigeria-nearly-50-killed
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 13 dead as Nigerian girls launch triple suicide bombings, 17 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/13-dead-nigerian-girls-launch-triple-suicide-bombings
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Six dead in NE Nigeria bomb blast: police, 20 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/six-dead-ne-nigeria-bomb-blast-police
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 50+ dead in Cameroon, Nigeria as Buhari warns US over Boko Haram, 22 July 2015a (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/cameroon/50-dead-cameroon-nigeria-buhari-warns-us-over-boko-haram
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Two killed in Boko Haram raid on army chief's village: residents, 22 July 2015b (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/two-killed-boko-haram-raid-army-chiefs-village-residents
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Suspected Islamists kill eight in NE Nigeria village: locals, 23 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/suspected-islamists-kill-eight-ne-nigeria-village-locals
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram blamed for killing 'at least 25' in NE Nigeria, 25 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-blamed-killing-least-25-ne-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Nigerian army frees dozens of women, children from Boko Haram, 28 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigerian-army-frees-dozens-women-children-boko-haram
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram 'slits throats of 10 fishermen' near Lake Chad, 30 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-slits-throats-10-fishermen-near-lake-chad
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: 10 killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria village: official, 31 July 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/10-killed-boko-haram-attack-nigeria-village-official
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram fighters kill 13 villagers in attack in NE Nigeria: witnesses, 2 August 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-fighters-kill-13-villagers-attack-ne-nigeria-witnesses
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kills nine Nigerian fishermen by Lake Chad, 5 August 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kills-nine-nigerian-fishermen-lake-chad
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram shoots 9 people dead in NE Nigeria, 6 August 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-shoots-9-people-dead-ne-nigeria
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Boko Haram kills four on highway in NE Nigeria: locals, 10 August 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/boko-haram-kills-four-highway-ne-nigeria-locals
• AFP - Agence France-Presse: Villagers describe horror of NE Nigeria market bombing, 12 August 2015 (published by ReliefWeb)
  http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/villagers-describe-horror-ne-nigeria-market-bombing
• AlertNet: Suspected Boko Haram militants raid northern Christian town in Nigeria, 30 November 2014 (published by Reuters)
  http://www.trust.org/item/20141130131816-2diop/
• AlertNet: Boko Haram raid town in Nigeria's Borno state, at least 12 dead, 10 March 2015 (published by Reuters)
  http://www.trust.org/item/20150310153354-2znls/?source=jtOtherNews2
• AlertNet: Nigeria: Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds in northern Nigeria town: residents, 24 March 2015 (published by Reuters)
  http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-violence-nigeria-kidnapping-idUSKBN0MK22Y20150324
• AlertNet: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 37 near northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri, 12 June 2015 (published by Reuters)
  http://www.trust.org/item/20150612130409-bjm4s/?source=fiOtherNews3
• BBC News: Nigeria suicide attack 'kills 21' near Maiduguri, 1 April 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26846272
• BBC News: Nigerian senator: '135 civilians killed' in attacks, 13 April 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27006876
• BBC News: Nigeria abductions: Military admits girls still missing, 18 April 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27078610
• BBC News: Chibok abductions in Nigeria: 'More than 230 seized', 21 April 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27101714
• BBC News: Nigeria girls' abduction: Protest march in Abuja, 30 April 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27216931
• BBC News: Abuja blast: Car bomb attack rocks Nigerian capital, 2 May 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27249097
• BBC News: More Nigerian girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram militants, 6 May 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27298614
• BBC News: Nigerian village vigilantes 'repel Boko Haram attack', 14 May 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27412057
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Kano suicide attack, 19 May 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27465113
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'targets village vigilantes', 23 May 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27547214
• BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: '20 women abducted' in north, 10 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27774239
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri 'preachers kill dozens', 5 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27716898
• BBC News: Nigeria World Cup viewers hit by deadly bomb blast, 18 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27896257
• BBC News: Nigeria blast at Kano health college 'kills 8', 23 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27982795
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seizes women' in Borno, 24 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27998502
• BBC News: Nigeria: Abuja bomb blast in Wuse district kills 21, 25 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28019433
• BBC News: Nigeria: 'Boko Haram' attack villages near Chibok, 29 June 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28080030
• BBC News: Nigeria 'raids Boko Haram cell linked to abductions', 1 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28102251
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria arrests 'female recruiters', 4 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28168003
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'controls' Damboa in Borno , 21 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28406645
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram blamed for blowing up bridge , 23 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28441259
• BBC News: Nigeria's Kaduna hit by by deadly explosions, 23 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28447204
• BBC News: 'Boko Haram' abducts Cameroon politician's wife, 27 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28509530
• BBC News: Nigeria Kano blast: Boko Haram blamed for six deaths, 30 July 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28571037
• BBC News: Boko Haram suspected of abducting more than 50 Nigerian villagers, 15 August 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28809355
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian soldiers 'mutiny over weapons', 19 August 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28855292
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria militants 'seize police academy', 21 August 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28884665
• BBC News: Boko Haram declares 'Islamic state' in northern Nigeria, 25 August 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28925484
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seize' Bama town in Borno, 1 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29021037
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seize Banki town near Cameroon', 3 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29048394
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: 'Bodies litter' Nigeria's Bama town, 4 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29062004
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seize' Michika in Adamawa state, 8 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29110663
• BBC News: Nigerian army 'repels' Boko Haram attack near Maiduguri, 13 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29190898
• BBC News: Boko Haram: Nigeria teacher training college attacked, 17 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29244107
• BBC News: Boko Haram 'kills dozens' in attack on Nigerian market, 20 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29297402
• BBC News: Boko Haram fighters 'surrender' as alleged chief killed, 24 September 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29352927
• BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram blamed for raids despite truce claim, 20 October 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29689726
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram 'abducts more women and girls' , 23 October 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29740204
• BBC News: Boko Haram denies ceasefire claim by Nigeria's government, 1 November 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29859587
• BBC News: Nigeria unrest: Kano mosque attack kills dozens, 28 November 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30250950
• BBC News: Nigeria's Maiduguri city hit by deadly blasts, 25 November 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30194149
• BBC News: 'Boko Haram' kills 48 Nigerian fishermen near Chad, 23 November 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30167886
• BBC News: Nigeria: Dozens killed in double bombing in Jos, 11 December 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30441826
• BBC News: Nigeria's Gombe and Bauchi cities hit by blasts, 22 December 2014
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30580578
• BBC News: Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan vows to defeat Boko Haram, 1 January 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30652581
• BBC News: Boko Haram unrest: Gunmen kidnap Nigeria villagers, 3 January 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30666011
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria's Baga town hit by new assault, 8 January 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30728158
• BBC News: Nigeria: 'Girl bomber' kills 19 people in Maiduguri market, 10 January 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30761963
• BBC News: Nigeria troops repel Boko Haram attack on city of Gombe, 14 February 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31469073
• BBC News: Nigeria suicide bombers target Potiskum and Kano buses, 24 February 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31604853
• BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram: Many killed in bus station bombings, 26 February 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31650463
• BBC News: 'Boko Haram' kills dozens in raid on Nigerian village, 6 March 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31757272
• BBC News: Nigeria says it has ousted Boko Haram from town of Bama, 17 March 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31917421
• BBC News: Boko Haram crisis: 'About 500' Nigerian children missing, 24 March 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32044695
• BBC News: Boko Haram HQ in Nigeria 'retaken', 27 March 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32087211
• BBC News: Nigeria students targeted in suicide attack in Potiskum, 8 May 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32657546
• BBC News: Nigeria suicide bomb kills at least seven at market, 19 May 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32799694
• BBC News: Nigeria violence: Militants kill 29 in Maiduguri, 30 May 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32944054
• BBC News: Deadly bomb hits Nigeria fish market, 22 June 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33232146
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Jos blasts kill scores, 6 July 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33406537
• BBC News: Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb 'kills 25', 7 July 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33425734
• BBC News: Nigeria Eid shoppers 'killed in Gombe market explosions', 17 July 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33556924
• BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Child bomber hits Damaturu, 26 July 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33671203
• BBC News: Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Army rescues 178 people, 3 August 2015
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33754769
• CRS - Congressional Research Service: Nigeria’s Boko Haram: Frequently Asked Questions, 20 May 2014
  http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/227635.pdf
• CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: 20 dead in attack on mosque in Yobe State, 7 April 2014
  http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1683&search=
• CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Christian Communities in Borno state targeted by Boko Haram, 5 June 2014
  http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1711&search=
• CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Boko Haram Kills Hundred In Assault On Baga And At Least 15 Other Villages, 14 January 2015
  http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1822&search=
• CSW - Christian Solidarity Worldwide: At least 64 dead in attack on Ramadan prayer ground, 17 July 2015
  http://www.csw.org.uk/2015/07/17/press/2709/article.htm
• Guardian: Deadly Boko Haram raids destroy two Nigerian villages, 20 February 2015
  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/20/boko-haram-raids-two-nigerian-villages
• HRW - Human Rights Watch: Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Cause Humanitarian Crisis, 14 March 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/271868/400556_de.html
• HRW - Human Rights Watch: Nigeria: Boko Haram Kills 2,053 Civilians in 6 Months, 15 July 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/280701/397626_en.html
• ICG - International Crisis Group: Curbing Violence in Nigeria (II): The Boko Haram Insurgency, 3 April 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/1226_1396951718_216-curbing-violence-in-nigeria-ii-the-boko-haram-insurgency.pdf (Accessed 23 September 2014)
• IPS - Inter Press Service - News Agency: Days After African Leaders Vow to Defeat Boko Haram, Bombings and Terror Continue, 20 May 2014
  http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/days-african-leaders-vow-defeat-boko-haram-bombings-terror-continue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=days-african-leaders-vow-defeat-boko-haram-bombings-terror-continue
• Jamestown Foundation: Boko Haram Opens New Fronts in Lagos and Nigeria’s Middle Belt; Terrorism Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 15, 25 July 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/282607/399744_en.html
• OHCHR - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Remarks By The High Commissioner For Human Rights At A Press Conference During Her Mission To Nigeria, 14 March 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/271987/387356_en.html
• RFE/RL - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Boko Haram Kidnaps At Least 185 In Nigeria, 18 December 2014
  http://www.rferl.org/content/boko-haram-kidnapping-nigeria/26750903.html
• UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Refugees fleeing attacks in north eastern Nigeria, UNHCR watching for new displacement, 9 May 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/275877/391925_en.html
• UNHCR - UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Recent Attacks in Nigeria prompt new refugees to Cameroon, more continue to arrive, 2 September 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/285681/403276_en.html
• USDOS - US Department of State: 2013 International Religious Freedom Report - Nigeria, 28 July 2014 (available on ecoi.net)
  http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/281964/399059_en.html