Boko Haram crisis: 'Bodies litter' Nigeria's Bama town BBC 4 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. On Wednesday, the state government denied the town had fallen. Officials said about 26,000 people had been displaced

As Islamist Militants Advance, Residents Flee a Nigerian City By Adam Nossiter, The New York Times 4 September 2014 Amid fears that Islamist militants were closing in on the major city in Nigeria’s northeast, hundreds of residents were said to be fleeing Maiduguri on Thursday in the face of doubts that the army could repel an attack on the metropolis of more than one million people. The militant group Boko Haram has captured towns to the north,

Genocide Watch THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END GENOCIDE Genocide Emergency Alert: Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon 4 September 2014 Update [WORD DOCUMENT] The jihadist terrorist organization, Boko Haram continues to be a severe threat to the stability of Nigeria.The group has a genocidal ideology. Its goal is to wipe out Christian and government institutions throughout Nigeria, Cameroon, and West and Central Africa. Its methodology is terror

Nigeria's Boko Haram 'seize' Bama town in Borno By BBC News 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. Last month,

Boko Haram kill scores in captured Nigeria town By Aminu Abubakar, Yahoo News 30 August 2014 Boko Haram gunmen have killed scores of residents in a Nigerian town on the border with Cameroon that they captured in recent raids, witnesses told AFP on Saturday. The militants seized Gamboru Ngala earlier this week after taking over military and police facilities in a fierce gun battle which forced thousands of residents across the border into Cameroon.

Boko Haram takes over another Nigeria town By Aminu Abubakar, AFP 21 August 2014 Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram has seized control of a town 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

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Forces Victims to Fight, Kill Heather Murdock, Voice of America 19 August 2014 The Boko Haram insurgency continues to expand in size and tactics, kidnapping villagers and forcing them to fight. But what may appear to be mayhem in northeastern Nigeria, is actually a strategy to wrest territory from the Nigerian government by isolating the northern seat of power.   Forced to join Boko Haram Kidnapping is becoming more common

By Lanre Ola Reuters 15 August 2014  Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said on Friday. The kidnappings came four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village

By Lanre Ola Reuters 8 August 2014  Nigeria's military fought gun battles with Boko Haram Islamists in two key northeastern towns on Friday, after the militants killed dozens of people and drove soldiers out of Gwoza town two days ago, security sources and the military said. On Friday the military launched strikes to push the rebels out of Gwoza, the security sources said, and the garrison town of Damboa, which the militants sacked a month ago.

By Tim Cocks Reuters 4 August 2014  (Reuters) - Footage obtained by human rights group Amnesty International and released on Tuesday appears to show Nigerian soldiers slitting the throats of Boko Haram suspects and dumping their bodies in a mass grave. Nigeria's military is battling an increasingly vicious Islamist insurgency by Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria. But its forces frequently come repeatedly