Boko Haram

Boko Haram, dem officially know as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, romanized: Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), be a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group wey base insyd northeastern Nigeria wey e sanso be active insyd Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, den Mali. Insyd 2016, na de group split, resulting insyd de emergence of a hostile faction dem know as de Islamic State's West Africa Province.

 International responses 

 Dates of designation as a terrorist organization 
Country/OrganizationDateAustralia26 June 2014Bahrain Canada24 December 2013ChinaIraqMalaysia2014New ZealandMarch 2014United Arab Emirates15 November 2014United Kingdom10 July 2013United Nations22 May 2014 United States14 November 2013

 References 

 Read further 

 Abimbola Adesoji: "The Boko Haram Uprising and Islamic Revivalism in Nigeria". In: Africa Spectrum 45/2, 2010, pp. 95–108.
 Roman Loimeier: "Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria." In: Africa Spectrum 2–3, 2012, pp. 137–155.
 Freedom C. Onuoha: "The Islamist Challenge. Nigeria's Boko Haram Crisis explained" In: African Security Review 19/2, 2010, pp. 54–67.
 Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Boko Haram: Islamism, politics, security and the state in Nigeria (West African Politics and Society Series. No. 2). African Studies Centre, Leiden 2014, .
 J. Peter Pham: "Boko Haram: The strategic evolution of the Islamic State's West African Province." In: The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 7(1), 2016, pp. 1–18, .
 Mike Smith: Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War. I.B. Tauris, London & New York 2015, .
 Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford 2017.
 Muhammad Sani Umar: "The Popular Discourses of Salafi Radicalism and Counter-Radicalism in Nigeria: A Case Study of Boko Haram." Journal of Religion in Africa 42(2), 2012, pp. 118–144.
 Hillary Matfess. 2017. Women and the War on Boko Haram. University of Chicago Press. 

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 Jacob, J. U. and Akpan, I. (2015).  "Silencing Boko Haram: Mobile Phone Blackout and Counterinsurgency in Nigeria's Northeast region", Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 4(1):8, 1–17. 
External links

 Diffa/Niger : Attacks by Boko Haram (as of 4 October 2015)

 Counter Extremism Project profile
 "Silencing Boko Haram: Mobile Phone Blackouts and Counterinsurgency in Nigeria's Northeast Region" by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob & Idorenyin Akpan (March 2015) Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
 National Geographic, March 2015 How Northern Nigeria's Violent History Explains Boko Haram
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 United States Department of State
'The disease is unbelief': Boko Haram's religious and political worldview By Alex Thurston The Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, January 2016


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