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Jun
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader is dead – claim

Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader is dead – claim

NEWS
THE Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, was dead. Shekau died around May 18 after detonating an explosive device when he was pursued by ISWAP fighters following a battle, a person purporting to be ISWAP leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi said on the audio recording. "Abubakar Shekau, God has judged him by sending him to heaven," he can be heard saying. Two people familiar with al-Barnawi told Reuters the voice on the recording was that of the…
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Jan
03
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC army says its forces recapture eastern village from Islamist group

DRC army says its forces recapture eastern village from Islamist group

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has revealed that 14 suspected Islamist militants and two soldiers were killed in fighting on New Year's Day as the Congolese army backed by U.N. peacekeepers regained control of Loselose village in the east of the country. Allied Democratic Force. Picture: Wikipedia Commons The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group that has emerged as the most lethal of the militias in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern borderlands, has carried out several attacks in recent weeks. "Yesterday, January 1, an army regiment overpowered the terrorists of the ADF in the village Loselose and…
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Dec
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Boko Haram behind schoolboys’ abduction – audio message

Nigeria’s Boko Haram behind schoolboys’ abduction – audio message

NEWS
A man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram has said the Islamist group was behind the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys, as anxious parents begged the government to secure their release. Pupils who escaped kidnap on Friday, by jumping over the fence of the Government Science secondary school in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria and fleeing through a forest, said the attackers were armed with Ak-47 assault rifles and rounded up their victims before marching them off. Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has waged an insurgency in…
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Dec
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Gunmen in Niger kill 27, burn 800 houses, says U.N.

Gunmen in Niger kill 27, burn 800 houses, says U.N.

NEWS
UNIDENTIFIED gunmen have killed at least 27 people and burned 800 homes in an attack in Niger's Diffa region, according to the United Nations. It did not say who was behind the bloodshed, but Islamist group Boko Haram has been waging attacks in the region around Lake Chad since 2009, causing around 250,000 people to flee, according to U.N. figures. "The Secretary-General regrets that this barbaric attack disrupted the peaceful holding of municipal and regional elections," it said in a statement. Authorities in Niger have not yet commented on the attack. The Boko Haram insurgency erupted in northeastern Nigeria, but…
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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

NEWS
MADJIASRA NAKO FOUR soldiers in southwest Chad were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a boat thought to have been caused by an improvised bomb, a local official said on Wednesday, suggesting it was the work of Islamist group Boko Haram. Chad has suffered attacks on its soil from Nigeria-based Boko Haram since 2015. The jihadist insurgency first erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before spreading into Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon, and killed more than 30,000 people. The blast occurred on Tuesday night on a boat travelling near Ngouboua, around 25 km (15 miles) from the Nigerian…
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