The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents in multiple vehicles on Tuesday, Jan. 10, destroyed parts of the Nigerian Army Institute during an attack on Buratai town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State. HumAngle learnt that a yet-to-be-ascertained number of people were killed. Several vehicles were also destroyed alongside sections of the Nigerian Army Institute. […]
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The Nigerian military has carried out air and artillery strikes on gun trucks and gathering of insurgents in Sambisa forest general area in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. Sambisa was a notorious stronghold of the Boko Haram terror group for years until the incursion by the rival Islamic State West Africa Province(ISWAP) into the area. According […]
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The maxim that “there is no medicine like hope and no tonic so powerful as an expectation for something better tomorrow,” aptly depicts the stories of many Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Northeast Nigeria. Many IDPs, who have lost their most valuable assets in the decade-old Boko Haram insurgency, are still rebuilding their lives and […]
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The lone man seated on a bench, demeanour like one tamed to submission, is Reuben Joseph, aged 37. He is mentally unstable. Another bit of startling information – he has no parents, siblings, or relatives he is currently aware of. Here, he shakes his head emphatically, a trace of irritation on his face at his […]
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Saraya’s life took a turn for the worse when her partner was killed in 2014. She had been happily married to Awaza for three years, and they both lived quietly in Taradan, a village in Bama Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno state, in Northeast Nigeria. But, by this time, the Boko Haram insurgency, whose […]
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Nigerien soldiers killed about 50 insurgents during fierce clashes in the Diffa region of Niger. Sixteen soldiers died and nine others sustained injuries during the clashes. A swarm of insurgents attacked a military position in Baroua, a town in the south-eastern Niger Diffa region near Lake Chad and neighbouring Nigeria. The attack was reported to […]
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A joint team of Nigerian military and police, Tuesday, May 11, killed multiple Boko Haram terrorists and captured their equipment during an infiltration of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in Northeast Nigeria. This paper gathered that at least one gun truck with a heavy machine gun and multiple motorcycles were recovered alongside terrorists’ corpses. […]
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Nigerian troops Thursday pushed back Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ second incursion within a few days in the Damasak area of Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. Damasak is near the border with the Niger Republic, about 180 kilometres Northwest of Maiduguri. HumAngle learned that the insurgents burnt two humanitarian vehicles and hijacked another one […]
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On Sunday, the convoy of Farouq Yahaya, Commandant of Nigeria’s counter-insurgency operation, came under attack from members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter group of Boko Haram terror group. Farouq Yahaya, a Major General, took over Operation Lafiya Dole’s command in April 2020 from Major General Olusegun Adeniyi. HumAngle learned that ISWAP […]
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