... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
near the border with 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...
, a military source and a local resident told AFP. The attack happened in Borno state which has been a hotbed of the 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...jihadist uprising in Nigeria. More than 40,000 people have died there in the past 15 years of conflict.
"Twenty-six people died in the blast, comprising 16 men, four women and six children," said a military officer speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because he was not authorized to talk about the incident. Three passengers were severely injured, said the officer. "I took part in the funeral of the 26 people killed in the earth-shattering kaboom, most of them were burnt beyond recognition," Akram Saad, a resident of the nearby town Rann, said. A medic at the Rann general hospital said 26 bodies were taken to the hospital, most of them "unrecognizable" from the earth-shattering kaboom.
Boko Haram and rival Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) launch sporadic ambushes on convoys and plant landmines along highways in northern Borno. It was not clear which jihadist group was behind the mine blast although ISWAP is active in the area.