Showing posts with label Insurgency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insurgency. Show all posts
Tuesday 23 October 2018

Boko Haram Kills Two in Attack Near Chibok

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Boko Haram jihadists have killed two people in an attack on a village in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, residents and a milit...
Monday 29 February 2016

Conflating Terrorism And Insurgency

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Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been s...
Saturday 28 November 2015

Canadian Takes Fight Against Boko Haram To The Airwaves To Counter Sect's Narratives

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A Canadian broadcaster, Mr. David Smith, has set up a radio station focused at combating Boko Haram insurgency and its ideology. The radi...
Saturday 21 February 2015

When A Terrorist Organization Becomes An 'Armed Insurgency'

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An organization that regularly uses suicide attacks against innocent civilians has been designated an "armed insurgency" by the...
Monday 12 January 2015

UPDATE: 7 Dead, 48 Injured In Potiskum GSM Market Twin Suicide Bombings

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Seven persons died and 48 others injured when two suicide bombers struck at a market in Potiskum, Yobe State on Sunday, PREMIUM TIMES  ha...
Wednesday 10 December 2014

Anti-terror Measures: How Technology Helps Fight The Counter-Terrorism War

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Davey Winder examines how technology can help and hinder in the fight against terrorism. Science is being used to counter "technical...
Thursday 6 November 2014

Boko Haram Stole Truckloads Of Dynamite From Ashaka Cement Factory

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Dynamite Boko Haram fighters are set for more lethal attacks after carting away on Tuesday eight truck loads of dynamites from a ceme...
Tuesday 5 August 2014

Amnesty International Claims Nigerian Army Committed 'War Crimes'

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Nigeria's army has committed atrocities in the north-east in its fight against Islamist militants belonging to Boko Haram, Amnesty Inter...
Saturday 2 August 2014

Boko Haram Threatens To Attack Akwa Ibom State

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The Akwa State Government, Friday , said it had received text messages from the Boko Haram terrorist group threatening to attack public p...

Insecurity: Kwara State GovernmentBans Use of Schools for Social Events

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Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara on Friday in Ilorin announced restriction on the use of public schools in the state for social events....

Boko Haram: Nigeria Raises N60 Billion to Assist Terror Victims

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The federal government on Thursday realised over N60 billion as individuals and groups donated to the Victims of Terror Support Fund laun...

Police Discover Buried Arms, IEDs In Bauchi State

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The state’s police spokesman, Mohammed Haruna (a deputy of police) said the lethal weapons were discovered on Wednesday at about 4:3...
Friday 1 August 2014

Spread of Boko Haram Threatens Heart of Nigerian Economy

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LAGOS, Nigeria—To understand why Africa's top economy is faltering after five years of Islamist attacks, take a look at Tochukwu Odid...
Thursday 31 July 2014

Boko Haram Bent On Seizing Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Kogi And Nasarawa States - Intelligence Source

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A high-level Nigerian security source told SaharaReporters that Nigeria’s intelligence agencies have received “credible reports that Boko Ha...

United States Committed To Stemming Boko Haram Threat —Consul General

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THE United States Consul General to Nigeria, Mr Jeffery Hawkins, has, again, noted the threat Boko Haram poses to Nigeria and the African co...

How Europe Inadvertently Bankrolls Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab

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Al-Qaeda is increasingly funding terror operations thanks to at least $125 million in ransom paid since 2008, largely by European governmen...
Wednesday 30 July 2014

Cameroonian President Fires Two Army Officers After Boko Haram Raids

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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - President Paul Biya on Tuesday dismissed two senior army officers in Cameroon's far north following Boko Haram attac...

4th Time in Less Than a Week: Another Female Suicide Bomber Kills Kano Polytechnic Students

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For the fourth time in less than a week, a female suicide bomber on Wednesday detonated explosive devices on the campus of the Kano State Po...

Boko Haram: Nigerian Military Set To Reinforce 'Special Forces' To Damboa, Borno State

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The leadership of the Nigerian military has concluded arrangement to deploy 600 specially trained commandos in the troubled area of Damboa, ...

Chibok Girls: Controversy Brews Over 100million Naira Presidential Gift To Parents

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A new controversy is brewing in Chibok village, in Borno State with parents of the abducted girls alleging that they have been shortchanged ...