More than 35 ISWAP fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in Kumshe, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-08-23
Eight people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen attack the towns of Mora and Zigage, Far North, Cameroon. 2023-05-30
Boko Haram militants raid and burn the village of Kadjigoroum, Chad, killing nine civilians. 2021-09-21
Katsina's governor Aminu Bello Masari says 344 pupils kidnapped from a boarding school in Kankara by Boko Haram on December 11 have been freed in Zamfara. 2020-12-17
Suspected Boko Haram militants attack an IDP camp with a grenade in Far North, Cameroon, killing 16 people and wounding six others. 2020-08-2
Nigerian officials report, as a result of negotiations, Boko Haram has released an estimated 82 schoolgirls who were among about 220 kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok in Borno State in April 2014. 2017-05-6
The United Nations suspends aid to dangerous areas of Nigeria's northeastern Borno State following Thursday's attack by Boko Haram (ISIL in Africa) on a humanitarian convoy where two soldiers and three civilians were wounded. However, UNICEF noted, aid will continue to the capital Maiduguri. 2016-07-29
A twin-suicide bombing of a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano kills at least fifteen people. 2015-11-18
At least 20 people are killed after a female suicide bomber attacks a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack. 2015-06-22