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Bookmark or Share- Boko Haram - WikipediaBoko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.
- Boko Haram | History, Meaning, Insurgency, & Facts | BritannicaBoko Haram, Islamic sectarian movement founded in 2002 in northeastern Nigeria. Since 2009 the group has carried out large-scale acts of violence. In 2015 the group began calling itself Islamic State in West Africa; later, after a split, one faction kept that name while the other reverted back to the original name.
- National Counterterrorism Center | FTOs - DNIBoko Haram. FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. Boko Haram. ( AS OF OCTOBER 2022 ) OVERVIEW. Boko Haram flag. Boko Haram, which aims to expel Western influence and create a Salafi-Islamist state in its area of operations, has killed an estimated 50,000 people and displaced more than 2.5 million people since it was established in 2002.
- Nigeria’s Battle With Boko Haram | Council on Foreign RelationsBoko Haram is a top-tier threat to Africa’s most populous country. An insurgency led by the Islamist group has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions more in recent years. At...
- Nigeria's Boko Haram militants: Six reasons they have not been ... - BBCThere are six main reasons why Boko Haram has not been defeated despite the government claims, experts say. 1: Root causes not addressed. An over-reliance on a military strategy to confront...
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