... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, residents said Saturday, in the latest assault since the government announced it was in ceasefire talks with 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...The suspected Boko Haram attack took place late Friday in the northeast Borno state capital of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the group's Islamist insurgency.
The girls, estimated to be between the ages of 13 and 18, attacked the Zawuya settlement on the outskirts of Maiduguri, killing two people, residents told AFP.
"We lost two people, a woman and a boy, in two of the four suicide kabooms," Zawuya resident Musa Haruna Isa said.
One of the bombers blew up while trying to scale a low mud wall outside a house that starting crumbling and detonated her boom belt, killing the boy, Isa said.
"One of them went
kaboom!near an open-air mosque, injuring one person," he said, adding that another bomber "panicked from the kabooms from her colleagues and squeezed the trigger in the open, killing only herself."
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
police said that just one person died in the attack.
"They (bombers) detonated the explosives killing themselves and one other person... 13 persons were maimed and were taken to a hospital where they are responding to treatment," Maiduguri police said in a statement.
The attack highlighted the challenge the government faces in reaching a ceasefire agreement with the fractionalised Boko Haram.
Last week, when more than 100 schoolgirls were returned to Dapchi after being kidnapped by the jihadist group, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said his government was offering amnesty to "repentant" jihadists.
But security bigshots cautioned that reaching any agreement with the group will be difficult, as it is split into competing factions with different goals.
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....
-affiliated faction reportedly in talks with the government is led by Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi and is known for attacks on military targets, while another faction led by Abubakar Shekau
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...is notorious for suicide kabooms killing civilians.
Zawuya, a settlement of people displaced by Boko Haram mostly from Rann, a town on the remote northeast 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...
, lies close to the Muna Garage area, home to some 40,000 internally displaced people.
Both camps have been repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram attacks.