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Boko Haram kill 28 people and burn down hundreds of homes in Toumour, Diffa, Niger.
2020-12-12

Niger security forces kill 12 Boko Haram militants in Bosso.
2016-05-29

An overnight raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on Niger's southern border town of Abadam, kills two Nigerien Army soldiers and three civilians. And, separately, a suicide-bomb attack on Lake Chad killed three of the attackers but no one else. A military convoy was also ambushed by militants in northern Cameroon, although there were no reported deaths.
2015-12-23

At least 18 people are killed and over 100 homes torched after Boko Haram militants attacked a village near the commune of Bosso in Niger's southern Diffa Region.
2015-11-26

At least five people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on a village in southwest Niger.
2015-05-7

Forces from Niger and Chad launch a ground and air offensive against Boko Haram Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria.
2015-03-8

Boko Haram launch a raid on a prison in the town of Diffa in Niger. Authorities repel the attack.
2015-02-9

Refugees flee Nigeria's Borno State following the Boko Haram massacre in the town of Baga. 7,300 flee to neighbouring Chad while over 1,000 are trapped on the island of Kangala in Lake Chad. Nigeria's army vows to recapture the town, while Niger and Chad withdraw their forces from a transnational force tasked with combating militants.
2015-01-9

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

Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Benin, and Chad join together to combat Boko Haram.
2014-05-17