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Eleven people are killed and several more are kidnapped as Boko Haram gunmen open fire against farmers working in their fields in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-11-5

At least 42 women, residents of an IDP camp, are abducted by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-08-23

Boko Haram jihadists attack a farm in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 43 people. The massacre reportedly occurred during the morning, when most workers were harvesting rice.
2020-11-28

Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least 15 people at a mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu.
2015-10-7

A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village.
2015-08-19

Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to take control of the Boko Haram-controlled parts of the country.
2015-02-7

Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger.
2014-11-24

Five members of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and two Nigerian Army soldiers are killed in fighting in the city of Kano.
2013-11-9

Two Boko Haram commanders Mohammad Bama and Abubakar Zakariya Yau are killed by the Nigerian army in a gun battle in the north-east Adamawa State.
2013-08-14

Nigerian police claim to have captured a senior commander of the radical Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
2012-05-12