Boko Haram Claims Major Attack On Key Northeast Nigerian City
Boko Haram Claims Major Attack On Key Northeast Nigerian City
Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night that killed at least 14 people, the first major assault in 18 months on a key stronghold against the militants. The raid took place six months after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Boko Haram had “technically” been defeated by a military campaign that had pushed many insurgents deep into the remote Sambisa forest, near the border with Cameroon. Maiduguri is the center of the government's eight-year-old fight against Boko Haram, which has been trying to set up an Islamic caliphate in the northeast. “We have killed those we can and have left with the bounties
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