At least 30 gold miners were killed in northern Nigeria in November 2016, quite possibly by Boko Haram terrorists.
Tag: Boko Haram
On this day in 2016, Boko Haram terrorists pretending to be mosque attendees detonated suicide vests in Nigeria, killing nine and wounding dozens.
While there is no question that the term terrorism is overused, there are puzzling occasions on which it is not used at all.
Boko Haram terrorists massacred upwards of 300 civilians in a Nigerian town near that country’s border with Cameroon which had been left unguarded.
On this day in 2015, Al Shabaab terrorists besieged Garissa University in northeastern Kenya. Four gunmen stormed the campus and began firing indiscriminately.
On this day in 2016 Boko Haram terrorists killed six Nigerien (not ‘Nigerian’) soldiers in the Diffa region of southeastern Niger.
On this day in 2016 two attacks by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram took place in areas where anyone with a sense of decency would see as verboten.
Terrorist groups like the Taliban hate just about everything, especially those who have hopes for the future.
Recent reports that deaths from terrorism are significantly down do not seem to apply to Africa.
On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.