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More than 1 million children have been forced out of school as a result of Boko Haram terrorism in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries, which leaves the children more susceptible to violence, poverty and child marriage, Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s West and Central Africa regional director, said in a statement.
2015-12-22

At least 30 people are killed after Boko Haram militants attack three villages in Nigeria's northeast Borno state.
2015-12-15

Three suicide bombers at Lake Chad kill at least 30 people and injure at least 80 others. Three women carried out the attack at a weekly market on an island on the Chadian side of the lake. No group claims responsibility; officials suspect the attacks were carried out by members of the Boko Haram militant group from neighboring Nigeria.
2015-12-5

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 militants attack a bus in Waza, Cameroon, killing eleven people and injuring six.
2015-01-2

Boko Haram abducts "dozens" of women and girls in Adamawa State, specifically in the villages of Wanga Mangoro and Garta.
2014-10-23

At least 13 people are dead and 34 injured after Boko Haram gunmen attack a government college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
2014-09-17

A car bomb explodes in a market in the northeast Nigerian town of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram, with dozens feared dead.
2014-07-1

Islamist terror group Boko Haram abduct two prominent traditional rulers from Borno State in Nigeria.
2014-05-30

Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon.
2014-04-5