Gumsuri Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gumsuri/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gumsuri Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gumsuri/ 32 32 Boko Haram on new killing and kidnapping spree https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/boko-haram-new-killing-kidnapping-spree/ Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/boko-haram-new-killing-kidnapping-spree/ Boko Haram militants have killed at least 33 people and kidnapped 200 in a north-eastern Nigerian village. News of the attack on Gumsuri village took two days to reach the city of Maiduguri. The latest operation by Boko Haram comes as the army in neighbouring Cameroon claims to have killed 116 of the jihadis who […]

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]]> Boko Haram militants have killed at least 33 people and kidnapped 200 in a north-eastern Nigerian village.

News of the attack on Gumsuri village took two days to reach the city of Maiduguri.

The latest operation by Boko Haram comes as the army in neighbouring Cameroon claims to have killed 116 of the jihadis who attacked one of its bases.

Boko Haram’s been particularly active launching two attacks in Nigeria’s Borno state.

This includes a raid on a market in the border town of Amchide.

Boko Haram has not claimed responsibility for these actions but authorities say they bear the stamp of the Islamist militant group

Militant violence has accounted for more than 2 000 deaths this year alone – mostly in north-eastern Nigeria bordering with Cameroon

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