... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, shortly after another bomber killed four at a displaced persons' camp, an emergency services official said on Thursday.
The failed mission at Mandarari village, near the town of Konduga in Borno state, and the successful attack just outside the state capital, Maiduguri, both came after ramped-up military action against Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...Islamists.
Nigeria's military announced in late 2016 that it had cleared the jihadists' Sambisa Forest stronghold but they are said to have since returned.
The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said soldiers and civilian militia intercepted two women at Mandarari at about 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Wednesday.
"The women detonated their explosives, killing themselves, having realised they had been uncovered," he told AFP.
About 45 minutes earlier, a male suicide bomber scaled a rear fence at the Dalori camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri and went
kaboom!. As well as the four who died, 44 were maimed.
Shortly afterwards, a
Satomi told AFP: "The failed suicide kaboom (at Mandarari) and the one at Dalori IDP camp are clearly the work of Boko Haram.
"They are trying to hit back as a result of the pressure the military has exerted on them in the current military operations against them in Sambisa forest.
"This is why we emphasised the need for people to be vigilant and keep an eye on strange faces coming into their communities as Boko Haram forces of Evil are trying to attack civilian targets in response to the losses they suffer in the hands of the military."
The conflict, which began in 2009, has killed at least 20,000 and left more than 2.6 million others homeless.
Nigeria's military and government maintain the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group affiliate is a spent force but there has been little let up in violence.
The BBC said in data published last week that the group killed at least 967 people in 150 attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Chad and Niger in 2017, up on 2016 when 910 deaths were reported in 127 attacks.