“Gunmen have attacked a mosque in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, killing three worshippers and wounding 12 others, police say. […] No group has said it carried out the raid. Islamist group Boko Haram has also staged several attacks in Kano, and elsewhere in northern Nigeria.” (
“Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a market in restive northeastern Nigeria, killing five and injuring many more, witnesses said on Monday. More than 30 attackers armed with guns, explosives and knives stormed the market in Borno State, where a state of emergency is in place, they said.” (
„Persistent attacks by Boko Haram (BH) militants in Nigeria's Borno State have forced dozens of clinics to shut down and hundreds of doctors to flee, leaving many residents to seek medical attention across the border in Cameroon, health professionals and residents told IRIN.“ (
IRIN, 5 February 2014)
“Boko Haram gunmen killed 43 people and razed scores of homes when they stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, firing indiscriminately on fleeing civilians, a state governor and witnesses said Wednesday. Heavily armed Islamist extremists in 4X4 trucks attacked a mosque, markets and government buildings in a massive assault on Konduga village in the troubled state of Borno on Tuesday. State governor Kashim Shettima said 39 people were killed in the raid, the latest in a series of attacks in Borno. Another four people were killed Tuesday when gunmen opened fire in the village of Wajirko in Borno, the epicentre of a gruesome Islamist rebellion that has killed thousands of people across northern and central Nigeria since 2009.” (
AFP, 12 February 2014)
“Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told AFP Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali area of Adamawa state when they were bombarded by Islamist rebels armed with anti-aircraft weapons mounted on the backs of 4X4 trucks, said Maina Ularamu, a local government official in the area.” (
AFP, 13 February 2014)
“Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village. About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, 35 kilometres (22 miles) away following warnings from residents of Gombale village, where Boko Haram Islamists gathered for a planned attack on Bama, Usman Adam, one of the fleeing residents said.” (
AFP, 15 February 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants have raided a Nigerian village and murdered dozens, according to witnesses. The gunmen reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izghe village and shot them, before going door-to-door and killing anyone they found. Officials said they suspected the Boko Haram group was behind the attack.” (
BBC, 16 February 2014)
“Attacks by Islamist armed groups that have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks in northern Nigeria have been increasingly deadly and sophisticated, and amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said. On 15 February, more than 100 people were reportedly killed and hundreds of houses burnt as gunmen attacked Baga and Izge villages in Borno state. It is just the latest in a series of attacks the organization has documented there and in neighbouring Adamawa state over the past three weeks.” (
AI, 17 February 2014)
“At least 121 people are now known to have died and several others were injured when Boko Haram gunmen attacked Izghe Village in the Gwoza Local government Area (LGA) of Borno State on 15 February. […] According to local reports, Boko Haram gunmen carried out attacks on other villages in both Borno and Adamawa States on the same day, including Kirchang, Kwambula, Shuwa, Dagu, Yinagu, Bitiku, and Yazza. While casualty figures from other villages are unknown, a survivor from Yazza informed local media that he counted 25 corpses before he escaped.” (
CSW, 18 February 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a town in Nigeria's troubled northeast on Wednesday, sparking a battle with soldiers that killed a large number of insurgents, the military said. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told AFP that the early morning attack in the town of Bama may have also included multiple suicide blasts.” (
AFP, 19 February 2014)
“Suicide bombers are believed to have taken part in a major attack on the northern Nigerian border town of Bama, the army has said. The attack comes a day after a presidential spokesman said the army was ‘winning the war’ against Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group. Borno state senator Ahmed Zanna told the BBC the attack on Bama had lasted for five hours on Wednesday [19 February 2014] morning.” (
BBC, 19 February 2014)
“The emir's palace was burnt during Wednesday's attack on Bama, northern Nigeria, in which at least 60 people were killed, police say. The extent of the damage is not clear. ‘They set the palace on fire. Many died,’ one resident said. The emir is one of northern Nigeria's most important traditional rulers, some of whom have already been targeted by Boko Haram Islamist militants.” (
BBC, 20 February 2014)
“A Nigerian senator has expressed outrage over the security forces' failure to prevent a second attack on a town by suspected Islamist militants. Gunmen believed to be from the Boko Haram group killed several residents and burnt down Izghe over the weekend. A week earlier, 106 people were killed by gunmen in a raid on Izghe.”(
BBC, 24 February 2014)
“At least 29 students have been killed after suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a boarding school in north-east Nigeria. The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says the remote school in Yobe state was attacked overnight when students were in their dormitories.” (
BBC, 25 February 2014)
“At least 40 students were killed when suspected members of the Islamist terror group Boko Haram attacked the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi in Yobe State, north-east Nigeria, during the early hours of 25 February.” (
CSW, 26 February 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast.” (
AFP, 26 February 2014)
“Suspected militant Islamists have killed at least 37 people during an assault on a town and nearby villages in north-eastern Nigeria's Adamawa state, witnesses said. Banks, shops and houses were also looted and burnt during the six-hour raid by militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades, they added.” (
AFP, 27 February 2014)
“’Since the beginning of this year the attacks have intensified. Over 600 people have been killed by gunmen, often suspected to be Boko Haram,’ said Makmid Kamara, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.” (
AI, 28 February 2014)
MARCH 2014
“Two explosions targeting a busy market in the town of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria have left at least 50 people dead, the Red Cross says. Hospital sources say many of the victims were children. Maiduguri is the headquarters of a military force fighting against the Boko Haram Islamist group, which has stepped up its attacks in the area. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday night.” (
BBC, 1 March 2014)
“Suspected militants have shot dead at least 39 people in an attack on a village in north-eastern Nigeria. The attackers - believed to be from the Boko Haram group - destroyed the entire village of Mainok, about 50km (30 miles) west of the city of Maiduguri. The incident took place late on Saturday, hours after two bomb blasts killed at least 50 people in Maiduguri.” (
BBC, 2 March 2014)
“Suspected militant Islamists have killed at least 29 people in an attack on a town in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state, a lawmaker has said. Government troops fled when the militants raided Mafa town on Sunday night, Ahmad Zannah added.” (
BBC, 3 March 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants have torched a village in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state, killing at least 11 people, a lawmaker told the BBC. They raided Jakana overnight, destroying about a third of homes, Senator Khalifa Zannah said.” (
BBC, 4 March 2014)
“Nigeria's military said on Thursday that it had killed 20 Islamist insurgents in the restive northeast, as schools were shut in the region to prevent further attacks targeting students. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said troops repelled an ambush by Boko Haram militants on Wednesday in Mafa, Borno state, epicentre of the uprising which has killed 500 people this year alone.” (
BBC, 6 March 2014)
“Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria's Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their lives from brutal violence unleashed by Islamist Boko Haram militants. […] ‘The whole healthcare system in northern Borno has collapsed and healthcare delivery is nil,’ said Musa Babakura, a surgeon at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).” (
AFP, 9 March 2014)
“UNHCR is increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of the violence in north-eastern Nigeria. Newly-arriving refugees interviewed by our staff in Niger have spoken of atrocities on the islands and shores of Lake Chad in Nigeria's northeast Borno State.” (
UNHCR, 11 March 2014)
“At least 69 people have been killed in several attacks on villages in Katsina state, north-western Nigeria. […] Police say the attack is not linked to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which is mainly active further east, particularly in Borno state.” (
BBC, 13 March 2014)
“Suspected Islamist militants from Boko Haram have attacked an army barracks in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The army said it had repelled the attack, inflicting heavy casualties. Eyewitnesses said there were deaths on both sides.” (
BBC, 14 March 2014)
“Public secondary schools in Nigeria's northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, teachers and parents said Saturday. The closure reportedly affects 85 secondary schools, catering to some 120,000 students across the troubled state, a stronghold of the militant sect waging a five year insurgency in Nigeria.” (
AFP, 22 March 2014)
“At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, Borno state, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko.” (
AFP, 23 March 2014)
“Suspected Boko Haram militants on Tuesday hurled explosives in Nigeria's troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five police officers, while a separate blast killed three.” (
AFP, 25 March 2014)
“More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in northeastern Nigeria worst hit by Boko Haram violence, according to the country's main relief organisation. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) figures are the starkest indication yet of the increase in bloodshed in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe that have caused growing concern.” (
AFP, 26 March 2014)
“Nigeria's army killed some 600 people after a recent attack by Boko Haram militants on a barracks, Amnesty International has said. Quoting eye-witnesses, it said that after the raid in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, detainees who had escaped were rounded up and killed.” (
BBC, 31 March 2014)
“Twenty-one people have been killed in an attempt to escape from detention at the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in the capital, officials say. […] Local media say many of the police detainees are suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram.” (
BBC, 31 March 2014)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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 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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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 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)