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Bookmark or Share- Borno | Nigeria, Map, History, & Facts | BritannicaBorno, state, northeastern Nigeria. It is the central fragment of the old Bornu empire of the Kanuri people. Its name is said to mean “Home of the Berbers.”
- Borno State - WikipediaBorno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west for about 421 km, Gombe to the southwest for 93 km, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon for about 426 km (265 miles, partly across the Ebedi and Kalia Rivers), its northern border ...
- Nigeria: crisis in northeast will worsen without urgent help ...Well over eight million people are in need of assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states, and an estimated 600,000 face emergency levels of food insecurity because of extremist violence...
- Recognize ‘enormous challenges’ facing northern Nigeria to ...Borno has been one of the epicentres of violent extremism and terrorist activity in Nigeria and across the wider Sahel region. Insecurity over the past 12 years linked to armed groups, including...
- Bornu | Nigeria, Location, Map, & History | BritannicaBornu, historical kingdom and emirate in northeastern Nigeria. Bornu was originally the southernmost province of the Kanem empire, an ancient kingdom that reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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