Sources: The Hindu
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
Boko Haram jihadists storm a village near Gamboru, Borno State, Nigeria, killing three people and kidnapping more than 40 others. It is the second mass abduction by the Islamist group this month. 2020-12-27
Boko Haram jihadists storm Pemi, a Christian village in Borno State, Nigeria, shooting people and burning down a church and a hospital, killing at least 11 civilians. A priest is kidnapped. 2020-12-24
Jihadist group Boko Haram claim responsibility for Friday's mass kidnapping in Kankara, Katsina, Nigeria. 2020-12-15
Two UN officials with MONUSCO—an American and a Swede—are among six people kidnapped near the village of Ngombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasaï-Central province. Congolese officials have not identified the kidnappers nor has any group claimed responsibility. 2017-03-13
Suicide bombers kill at least 32 people and injure 66 others in northern Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. 2016-01-25
Gunmen kill 12 people in a raid on a Northeastern Nigerian village. 2013-11-23
At least 60 people die in Nigeria following a collision between a bus and a petrol tanker on the Benin–Ore expressway. 2013-04-5
Nigeria's State Security Service claim to have arrested Abul-Qaqa, a purported spokesman for the radical Islamist Boko Haram group. 2012-02-1
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group in the Niger delta region of Nigeria, announces the end of its unilateral ceasefire. 2010-01-31