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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Fighters Attacking Borno Community
2022-01-30


Insurgents from the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-backed faction of Boko Haram
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ...
, the Islamic State West Africa Province formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, are currently attacking Ajiri.

Ajiri is a community in Mara Local Government Area of Borno State, which is about 52km from Maiduguri, the state capital.

A source told SaharaReporters that the murderous Moslems came in several trucks fitted with machine guns on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
troops of the Nigerian Army are currently engaging the gunnies in a shootout, the source added.

Since the death of JAS leader, 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. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.

Recently, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.

The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.




Troops of the Nigerian Army have repelled an attack by suspected fighters of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of West Africa Province in Ngirbua Village, Yobe State.

According to military sources, the troops ambushed the terrorists, killing a yet to be ascertained number of them while several others escaped with fatal gunshot wounds in the encounter.

The sources added that Anti Aircraft Guns, AK 47 riffles, among others were recovered from the Death Eaters.
Related:
Ajiri: 2021-05-07 Boko Haram killed five soldiers, 25 others in Borno attacks — Sources
Ajiri: 2021-05-04 Boko Haram kills 8 people in Nigeria
Ajiri: 2020-12-20 Hours after 35 passengers were kidnapped, Boko Haram attacks Ajiri community in Borno
Related:
Borno: 2022-01-26 Nigerian Army Arrests Boko Haram Fighters Collecting Taxes In Borno
Borno: 2022-01-22 Boko Haram Terrorists Abduct 17 Girls In Fresh Attack On Chibok Community
Borno: 2022-01-21 Boko Haram Mounts Checkpoints On Borno Highways, Now Collects ‘Taxes’ From Travellers
Related:
Yobe State: 2022-01-21 Boko Haram Mounts Checkpoints On Borno Highways, Now Collects ‘Taxes’ From Travellers
Yobe State: 2021-12-30 Boko Haram Suspends Farming Activities In Yobe Community After Residents Celebrated Killing Of Insurgents By Nigerian Arm, Elsewhere in State BH Destroyed 100 Hectares of Farmland
Yobe State: 2021-12-29 Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Killing 10 Nigerian Soldiers, Children During Yobe Attack
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