... 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...in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state.
Terrorists attacked a military convoy in Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region, killing 15 soldiers and four members of the Joint Task Force.
Army front man Mohammed Yerima said in a statement that several soldiers were also injured in the attack, reports said aa.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria, but later spread atrocities to Niger's neighbors Chad and 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...
, prompting a military response.
More than 30 people have been killed and nearly three million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram terrorist activities in Nigeria.
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Borno state: 2024-07-27 At least seven Nigerian soldiers killed by landmine
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